Svitolina removed the “curse” of the Olympic champion in Belarus: video review of the crazy Wimbledon match

The All England Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club hosts the $56.5 million Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament. On Sunday, July 9, Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina (76th in the WTA ranking), who had previously knocked out the legendary American Venus Williams, Belgian Eliza Mertens and another rival from the United States Sofia Kenin, had a super-heavy match against the 19th racket of the world Victoria Azarenka from Belarus, to whom she had previously lost all five matches.

The 28-year-old from Odessa in an incredible duel finally removed the curse of the Belarusian and made it to the quarterfinals in a tie-break. Elina beat the 33-year-old Olympic champion of the 2012 Games in mixed doubles and the champion of the Australian Open 2012 and 2013 in singles in three sets - 2:6, 6:4, 7:6 (9).

It should be noted that the titled Belarusian Azarenka living in the USA could not repeat her best achievement at Wimbledon, and Svitolina, who reached the semi-finals in 2019, sensationally reached the quarter-finals, earning 436.5 thousand dollars in prize money “dirty”. Elina will challenge her ticket to the final in the match with the first racket of the world, Iga Sventek from Poland, who barely finished the match with Belinda Bencic (14th) from Switzerland - 6:7 (4), 7:6 (2), 6:3.

By the way, even before the fight with Azarenka, the Ukrainian woman jokingly complained that her successful performance at Wimbledon crossed out her plans.

“Hey people! Today I was supposed to go to the concert of my beloved Harry Styles in Vienna, but Wimbledon messed up my plans. Who wants to leave? I have two tickets.” wrote Elina Svitolina on your Instagram.

Again, the young mother puts off a date with her child Skye, who stayed with her father, Gael Monfils.

“Gael wants me to come home because he is very tired. Ukrainian tennis player told reporters with a smirk. - But all is well. He says, “Okay, okay, you’re playing great, so it’s all good.” He enjoys. Now both of our mothers are at home with him. There’s a big team there now that takes care of Skye.”

Unfortunately, performances in Foggy Albion were stopped by two more Ukrainian tennis players who set personal achievements at the tournament. Marta Kostyuk (36th) in the third round match lost to American Madison Keys (18th) - 4:6, 1:6, and Lesya Tsurenkowho previously set a Wimbledon record, in the fight for a ticket to the quarterfinals lost to another US representative Jessica Pegula (4th) - 1:6, 3:6.

Earlier, FACTS reported that Svitolina defeated the Russian woman and won the 17th WTA title in her career.

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