![]() ![]() “But I don’t want to (make it) an excuse. Sometimes it gets maybe too much,” Svitolina said. “It’s a lot of responsibility, a lot of tension. Svitolina says she plays more calmly nowadays, something she attributed to the dual motivations of playing for her baby daughter, who was born in October, and of playing for her home country, where the ongoing war began in February 2022, when Russia invaded with help from Belarus. Svitolina received loud support from thousands in the crowd at the main stadium - Ukraine’s ambassador to Britain was in the Royal Box - as applause and yells echoed off the closed roof. After surprisingly beating Swiatek in the quarterfinals, she was trying to become the first woman from Ukraine to make it to the title match at a major tennis tournament. ![]() In the first semifinal, the 43rd-ranked Vondrousova reeled off seven consecutive games in one stretch against the 76th-ranked Svitolina, who returned from maternity leave just three months ago. ![]()
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