Elina became the second Ukrainian to reach this stage.
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina reached the 1/8 finals of the singles at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
In the second round match, She won a hard-fought victory over the world's sixth-ranked American Jessica Pegula. The match lasted 1 hour and 49 minutes and ended with a score of 4:6, 6:1, 6:3 in favor of the Ukrainian.
This was the sixth meeting between the tennis players. Svitolina was able to defeat Pegula only for the second time in her career, while she lost to this opponent four times.
For a ticket to the quarterfinals, Elina will fight against the current Wimbledon champion, the Czech Barbora Krejcikova.
Svitolina became the second Ukrainian tennis player to reach the third round of the 2024 Olympics in singles. Earlier, Marta Kostyuk also reached the 1/8 finals, but Dayana Yastremska failed to do so.
Svitolina is playing at the Olympics for the third time in her career. In Rio 2016, she reached the quarterfinals, and in Tokyo 2020, she won bronze.
Recall that Ukrainian tennis players are also continuing to compete for medals in the doubles tournament of the 2024 Olympics. The duo of Marta Kostyuk/Dayana Yastremska, as well as the tandem of Lyudmyla and Nadezhda Kichenok, made it to the second round.