the ukrainian Elina Svitolina Back to Roland Garros round of 16 three years after his last presence in that round and eight months after gave birth to a son with her partner, French tennis player Gael Monfils.
The current 192 in the ranking, who will return to the top-100 if he advances to the quarterfinals, prevailed in a reissue of the recent Strasbourg final against the Russian. Anna Blinkova56, 1-6, 6-2 and 7-5 and it will be measured against another Russian, the number 9 in the world, Daria Kasatkina.
As in the previous round, the 28-year-old started the match poorly but held off to finish off a fit tennis player who had just knocked out fifth seed Caroline Garcia of France.
Svitolina and Blikova avoided congratulating each other after the match, a gesture that has become common in rivalries between Russians and Ukrainians, against the backdrop of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Source: La Verdad
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