Svitolina reaches final of her first WTA tournament in 2024 – video

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has reached the final of the WTA 250 hard court tournament in Auckland, New Zealand, defeating China's Xiyu Wang in the semi-finals. Source: Suspilne Sport Details: The tournament in Auckland is Svitolina's first in four months.

She ended last season early, after the US Open 2023, to recover from a foot injury.

Svitolina's rival for the final was 71st-ranked Xiyu Wang of China. It was the first time the tennis players had met in a head-to-head match. The game lasted 2 hours and 11 minutes.

Svitolina served six aces, won 65% of points on the first serve and converted four break points out of ten.

Another Ukrainian, Liudmyla Kichenok, won her first WTA doubles tournament of the new season. The Ukrainian triumphed in Brisbane, Australia, in a duet with Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko. This is her first doubles title since October 2022, when she won the WTA 250 tournament in Tallinn with her sister Nadiia.

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