31-year-old Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, defeating 18-year-old neutral athlete Mirra Andreeva, who holds a Russian passport, in the 1/8 final.
This was reported by the official Australian Open website.
The match lasted 1 hour 24 minutes and ended with Svitolina winning in two sets with a score of 6:2, 6:4. The Ukrainian served four serves in a row and made only one double fault.
In the quarterfinals, Svitolina will meet the third-ranked player in the world, American Cori Gauff, who beat Czech Karolina Muchova in three sets in the 1/8 final.
