Elina Svitolina reached the 1/8 finals of the Roland Garros tournament. The athlete from Ukraine defeated Anna Blinkova in 3 sets with a score of 2-6, 6-2, 7-5.

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Elina Svitolina defeated Anna Blinkova in the third round of Roland Garros

In the replay of the Strasbourg final, Elina Svitolina (192 WTA) again prevailed in the match with Anna Blinkova (56 WTA) and reached the 1/8 finals of the Roland Garros tournament.

A quarterfinalist in 2015, 2017 and 2020 in Paris, Svitolina needed 3 sets to get past Anna Blinkova at the end of the match, which lasted 2 hours and 16 minutes.

The Ukrainian returned to the game well, although she lost the first set with a score of 6-2, and in the 1/8 finals she will meet another Russian, Daria Kasatkina (9 WTA).

Roland Garros No. 9 seed Daria Kasatkina defeated Peyton Stearns 6-0, 6-1 in the third round.

The Roland Garros tournament takes place from May 28 to June 11, has a total prize pool of 49.6 million euros, and is the 127th tournament. Iga Sviatek and Rafael Nadal (14-time winner in Paris) became the champions of the title.

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