May + June World Cup Sports Combined

Julia Gołębiewska
Jun 2, 2023
3 min read

Updated: Jul 1, 2023

Is my current status: kind of crying because there is no ski jumping, what am I supposed to watch? Nah. There are lot of other things going on. Wanna know what? So ready. Set. GO!

Tennis

Okay. So there were some "opens" tournaments right? Great to watch but they are not that important like this which started today (and by today I mean 28th May) - Roland Garros aka French Open. One of four grand slam tournaments. Iconic. Sadly, its biggest icon - Rafael Nadal - withdraw from it, because of his injury. It the first tournament in 19 years, when he won't be there. He won it 14 times, he is this tournament. What adds to the saddness - he said that the 2024 season would probably be his last.

Yeah... so:

Women's singles:

Front runner: Iga Świątek - number 1 in WTA ranking and last year's winner

but also Aryna Sabalenka (number 2 in WTA ranking) [fingers crossed for Iga obviously]

first round: 28th May - 30th May

second round: 31th May - 1st June

third round: 2nd June - 3rd June

fourth round: 4th June - 5th June

quaterfinals: 6th June - 7th June

semifinals: 8th June

final: 10th June

Men's singles:

Front runner: hard to say, obvious choice would be Nadal, but as written above - he won't be there

but honestly - most likely either Carlos Alcaraz (number 1 in ATP ranking) or Daniil Mendvedev (number 2 in ATP ranking)

first round: 28th May - 30th May

second round: 31th May - 1st June

third round: 2nd June - 3rd June

fourth round: 4th June - 5th June

quaterfinals: 6th June - 7th June

semifinals: 9th June

final: 11th June

Volleyball

Poland is the best thank you. Next.

No, but honestly. The final of Champions League was polish club vs polish club. ZAKSA Kędzierzyn Koźle vs Jastrzębski Węgiel. Such thing happened for the first time ever for polish clubs.

So, the championship was won by ZAKSA - for the third time in the row! For Węgiel it was also a great achievement - they got into the final for the first time ever.

And what comes next?

Nations league.

There you go with the dates of the first round which will be played in Nagoya, Japan (hours in GMT +2)

6th June:

Bulgaria vs China 9:10

Japan vs Iran 12:40

Italy vs Argentina 22:30

7th June

Kanada vs Cuba 02:00

Slovenia vs Servia 8:00

Poland vs France 11:00

USA vs Netherlands 22:30

8th June

Brazil vs Germany 02:00

Slovenia vs Bulgaria 05:00

Sebia vs China 08:00

Poland vs Iran 11:00

Netherland vs Cuba 17:00

Italy vs USA 22:30

9th June

Argentina vs Brazil 02:00

China vs France 6:10

Poland vs Bulgaria 9:10

Japan vs Serbia 12:40

Netherlands vs Germany 17:00

Italy vs Cuba 22:30

10th June

Canada vs Argentina 02:00

France vs Slovenia 05:40

Iran vs China 08:40

Japan vs Bulgaria 12:10

Germany vs Italy 19:00

Brazil vs Cuba 22:30

11th June

Canada vs USA 02:00

Slovenia vs Iran 05:40

Serbia vs Poland 08:40

Japan vs France 12:10

Argentina vs Netherlands 17:00

USA vs Brazil 20:30

12th

Canada vs Germany 00:00

F1

I must say. I am still not watching it, though I am constantly encouraged. But looking at the results - c'mon, it's kind of boring. Max Verstappen, Max Verstappen and Max Verstappen. Just joking, I know that the races themselve are probably much more interesting. But I believe that everyone who watches F1 already perfectly knows Netherland's anthem.

So here are the top 5 results from the Grand Prix Monaco:

Max Verstappen: 1:48:51.980
Fernando Alonso: + 27.921
Esteban Ocon: + 36.990
Lewis Hamilton: + 39.062
George Russel: + 56.284

European Games

You can ask what is it? Yet another sports event. And this time they are hold in Poland! The centre of everything is Kraków, but lots of events are happening in the nearby cities. It starts on the 21st June and ends on 2nd July.

Here is the list of the disciplines that will be present:

- artistic swiming

- diving

- badminton

- beach handball

- beach soccer

- sport climbing

- shooting

- ski jumping

- cycling mountain bike

- judo

- taekwondo