Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina (No. 27 WTA) reached the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open-2025. In the third round match of the main draw, the 30-year-old native of Odessa won a strong-willed victory over Italian Jasmine Paolini (No. 4 WTA). The match lasted 1 hour 49 minutes and ended with a score of 2:6, 6:4, 6:0. During her time on the court, Elina completed 7 serves and made 5 double faults.. This was the first head-to-head meeting between the tennis players.. In the 1/8 finals, Svitolina will play against a neutral tennis player with a Russian passport, Veronika Kudermetova (No. 75 WTA), who beat Beatrice Haddad Maia (No. 17 WTA) from Brazil in the third round. Elina competes in the main draw of the Australian Open for the 12th time.

Her personal best at this Grand Slam tournament remains reaching the quarterfinals in 2018 and 2019. Svitolina became the only Ukrainian woman who managed to reach the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open-2025. Earlier, Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremskaya failed to overcome the third round of the Australian major. The Australian Open 2025 main draw matches will take place from January 12 to 26. The current champion of the tournament is Belarusian Arina Sabalenka, who competes in a neutral status due to the full-scale war of the Russian occupiers against Ukraine.