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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Eleanor Crooks

‘A victory for Ukraine’: Daria Snigur stuns seventh seed Simona Halep in US Open first round

AP

A young Ukrainian player whose training base was bombed caused the first big shock of the US Open by knocking out seventh seed Simona Halep.

Twenty-year-old Daria Snigur won the Wimbledon junior title three years go but this was by far the biggest result of her senior career.

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