Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won a strong-willed victory over the sixth racket of the world Jessica Pegula in singles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Our athlete interrupted a series of four defeats from the American by winning with a score of 4:6, 6:1, 6:3.< /p>
Svitolina reached the 1/8 finals of the 2024 Olympics
The tennis players spent 1 hour and 49 minutes on the court, during which Elina served three times, had more winners (30 versus 25 for her opponent) and made an almost equal number of unforced errors with her opponent — 32:31.
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In the first game there was an equal fight on the court. The rivals exchanged breaks at the start, and the ninth game became decisive, in which Pegula took Svitolina’s serve.
The Ukrainian restored parity in sets when she crushed her opponent with a score of 6:1 in half an hour. The American started the decisive set with a lost serve. Whereas Elina did not make such mistakes, and in the ninth game she closed the match, making another break.
In the 1/8 finals of the 2024 Olympic Games, Svitolina will meet with the current Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova from the Czech Republic.
Earlier, Marta Kostyuk advanced to the third round at the 2024 Olympics, defeating the host of the courts, French Clara Burel, in two sets with a score of 7:6 (7:3), 6:2.
Another Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska finished her performance in the second round due to a defeat from Colombian Camila Osorio.
