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Message: [QUOTE="newfrontier, post: 3261613, member: 8141"] Go Svitolina! Go Ukraine! Beat Serena in the semis! (but not very likely) I have friends in Ukraine, so I have a bias, and as great as Serena is, I'm not a fan (because of her behavior, like in the US Open Final last year). Oh, and will people please stop calling the country "The" Ukraine. It's simply "Ukraine". Just because the name starts with a "U" does not mean one adds the word "The". No one says "The" Uganda, or "The" Uruguay, or "The" Uzbekistan, so why "The" Ukraine??? Only countries beginning with the word "United" have the word "The" used in front of them in a sentence. [LIST] [*] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]