Ukrainian tennis player Svitolina achieves anniversary victory over rivals from world top 10
Pravda Ukraine
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has won her 40th career victory over representatives of the top ten Women’s Tennis Association rankings. The anniversary victory was over Jasmine Paolini in the third round of the Australian Open.
Source: Champion, a sports news platform within Ukrainska Pravda’s holding company
Details: Firstly, the Odesa native defeated a top-10 ranked tennis player on 11 August 2014. At the time, Svitolina, ranked 39th in the world, secured a victory against Petra Kvitová, who was then ranked 4th.
The Ukrainian has 52 defeats against tennis players from the top 10.
At the stage of the final 16, Svitolina will face the unflagged representative of Russia, Veronika Kudermetova, who is currently ranked 75th in the world rankings. The Ukrainian started the tournament ranked 27th. The match is scheduled for 20 January.
Svitolina and Kudermetova have met twice before, with the Russian winning both matches.
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