Elina dealt with Australian Daria Seville.
The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina strong> (No. 17 WTA) successfully began her performance at the WTA 500 tournament in Charleston (USA).
The 29-year-old native of Odessa started at these competitions immediately from the second round, in which she convincingly beat Australian Daria Seville (No. 108 WTA).
The match lasted 1 hour 23 minutes and ended with a score of 6:2, 6:4 in favor of the Ukrainian.
During the entire match, Svitolina made one serve through and made one double fault. Note that the tennis players were supposed to play in the morning, but the match was postponed to the evening due to rain.
Review of the match Svitolina – Seville
In the third round (1/8 finals) Svitolina will play against the Belgian Elise Mertens, who defeated the French representative Varvara Gracheva in the second round – 6:4, 3:6, 6:2.
We add that earlier the Ukrainian Angelina Kalinina advanced to the third round of the tournament in Charleston, having defeated the former first racket of the world Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark.
For reaching the quarterfinals, Kalinina will fight with the “neutral” Russian Daria Kasatkina, who publicly condemned the Russian war against Ukraine.
Recall that the other two Ukrainian tennis players Dayana Yastremskaya and Lesya Tsurenko did not were able to overcome the second round of the tournament in Charleston.
