Elina Svitolina is the Ukrainian tennis player who has most publicly felt her regret for the war in her country. The tennis player from Odessa was excited today after repeating her presence in the Wimbledon semifinals.
The emotion was not so much about the victory against the Chinese Xinyu Wang, 6-2 and 6-1, but for the latest Russian attack on several Ukrainian cities, including the capital kyiv, in which an estimated 60 people have died, some of them children from a children’s hospital..
That is why Svitolina wore a black crepe on her chest. “Going out on the track is difficult for me right now,” he said in conclusion. Fate has wanted her rival in the penultimate round to be himRussian-born Elena Rybakina, who plays with a Kazakh passport.
Elina has been the most critical of the Russian and Belarusian tennis players with whom she shares a locker room and does not shake hands at the net at the conclusion of their matches. “If they support military aggression they want our death“, dice.
