Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina says she has acquired an outpouring of assist from People following President Donald Trump’s extraordinary conflict together with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the White Home final month.
Svitolina thanked People for his or her “unwavering assist” and “compassion” in a social media submit Sunday after beating Danielle Collins within the third spherical of Indian Wells.
After defeating one other American with a 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 win over Jessica Pegula on Tuesday, Svitolina advised reporters she had acquired strong assist on the event within the California desert.
“I really feel like since that assembly within the Oval Workplace, I acquired a number of messages of assist from the American individuals and lots of people right here after I arrived on the event, giving love and assist to Ukrainians for individuals again at dwelling,” she mentioned. “Additionally the huge assist that I acquired taking in consideration that I performed three American women back-to-back. It is superb, actually particular to get that, taking into account all of the stress that every one Ukrainians are going through proper now again at dwelling.”
Svitolina subsequent faces Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva within the quarterfinals at Indian Wells.
Ukrainian gamers have been boycotting the post-match custom of shaking fingers on the internet when taking over opponents from Russia and Belarus, which is a staging floor for the invasion.
The U.S. on Tuesday agreed to renew army help and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv mentioned it was able to assist Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia.