Roland Garros-2017: Svitolina snatched a place in the third round

The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina showed character and made it to the third round of the Open championship of France on tennis.

The opening match for Svitolina vs Yaroslava Shvedova was difficult but uneventful. In the second round of the Kharkov waited another difficult exam – Elina met from chetvertfinalnoy Roland Garros with the Tsvetana Pironkova.

At the start of the match, tennis players exchanged successful games on their feeds. A little harder had Svitolina, who had a double break point. With the score 3:3 Pironkova again earned a break point, this time the ball hit the rope and flew to the side of Svitolina. From this blow the Ukrainian failed to depart before the end of the exercise – the fifth racket of the tournament often wrong and naturally lost a starting party.

Nervousness in the actions Svitolina is preserved in the second set – Elina twice did break, but immediately gave his serve. Only with the score 3:2 a native of Odessa coped with the emotions, given a quality game on his serve and never let Pironkova.

The deciding set Svitolina beginning-farming – Ukrainian confidently defended his serve, then made a break and led 3:0. His advantage Elina quickly lost, allowing in the fifth game of a series of blunders. This expressionless game Ukrainka quickly closed his brilliant play at the reception – when the score
4:2 Svitolina defended his serve and took all the questions about the winner of the match.

For an exit in the 1/8 finals of the French Open, Elina Svitolina will face 25-year-old Polish girl Magda linette, unexpectedly defeated 29th-seeded Ana Groom (6:0, 7:5).

Elina Svitolina (Ukraine, 5) – Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) – 3:6, 6:3, 6:2

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