The first racket of Ukraine and 4 rackets of the world Elina Svitolina outplayed in the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open Czech Denis Allertov.

Having given only three games in the first set, Svitolina dried up with her opponent in the second game. As a consequence, the score of this meeting was 6: 3 and 6: 0 in favor of the Ukrainian tennis player.

It should be noted that Svitolina managed to break into the top 8 only at the third attempt. An interesting fact is that previously these athletes have already met - in 2016 Svitolina lost Allertova with a score of 5: 7 and 4: 6.

Thus, having beaten the Czech, Elina became the first Ukrainian woman, who managed to break into the quarterfinals of the open championship of Australia. In the next round, Svitolina will meet with Belgian Alice Mertens. This duel will be held on January 23rd.