Elina Svitolina has used her platform to fundraise and speak out tirelessly on behalf of Ukraine. She's also playing the best tennis of her life after her upset of world No. 1 Iga Swiatek.
She then earned more of the crowd’s approval with an answer about what she’d be doing after the match.The crowd here at Wimbledon has seemed to adopt Svitolina as nearly one of their own,at Roland Garros. She’s a worthy choice as a 28-year-old Ukrainian who has used her platform to fundraise and speak out tirelessly on behalf of her country. She is also a new mother, eight months removed from giving birth and four months into a career comeback.
She’ll finally break that pattern against world No. 42 Marketa Vondrousova, the 2019 French Open finalist who upset Jessica Pegula, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, earlier Monday with the type of game that gives her opponents nightmares: Pegula led 4-1 in the third before Vondrousova’s creative shot-making and variety wrong-footed the American.Svitolina owns a 3-2 record against the Czech, but history has meant little throughout Svitolina’s run here.
“I didn’t remember that she was changing rhythm so much in terms of playing these faster shots sometimes,” Swiatek said. “But I totally get that, why she’s doing that. It totally makes sense. You have to have guts if you want to win these matches.” That combined with the life experiences she collected over the past year to produce a woman who plays more freely, without fear. She’s served the second-most aces this tournament after world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka with 28.“I think it’s mixture of everything. Also I think war made me stronger and also made me, like, mentally stronger. Mentally I don’t take difficult situations as like a disaster, you know? There are worse things in life. I’m just more calmer,” Svitolina said.
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