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The best tennis player of Ukraine Elina Svitolina has won in 1/8 endings of the Open championship of France.
The match against the Croatian Petra Martic, which is ranked 290 in the world ranking, lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes.
For the game, the Ukrainian made 5 double and 40 unforced errors, and also flipped out five times.
In the third decisive set, our tennis player lost 2: 5, but Elina managed to collect and win the last 5 games in a row.
The final score of the match was 4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5 in favor of Svitolina.
Note that between the second and third parties, the Ukrainian took a medical time-out because of problems with the back.
In the quarterfinal opponent of Elina will be the third racket of the tournament Romanian Simon Halep, who in a parallel match defeated Spaniard Carlos Suarez Navarro.
Recall, Svitolina beat Halel two weeks ago in the final of the Premier 5 series in Rome.