Elina won the first set against the current champion of the US Open, but eventually dropped out of the tournament.
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina (No. 28 WTA) failed to reach the 1/8 finals of the US Open-2024.
In the third In the prestigious competition, the 29-year-old native of Odessa lost to the world's third-ranked American Cori Gauff, who is the current US Open champion. Last year, in the final, she defeated the “neutral” Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
The three-set match lasted 2 hours and 4 minutes and ended with the Ukrainian's defeat with a score of 6:3, 3:6, 3:6.
It should be noted that Elina's greatest achievement in her career at the US Open remains reaching the semifinals in 2019.
Thus, the only representative of Ukraine in singles at the 2024 US Open is Marta Kostyuk (No. 19 WTA), who is currently meeting American Emma Navarro (No. 12 WTA) in the 1/16 finals.
This year, Ukraine was represented in the US Open 2024 by seven tennis players at once – this is a new national record.
Dajana Yastremska (No. 34 WTA), Yulia Starodubtseva (No. 146 WTA), Lesia Tsurenko (No. 85 WTA) and Ekaterina Baindl (No. 329 WTA) were eliminated in the first round of the competition. Angelina Kalinina (No. 55 WTA) lost to Svitolina in the second round.
