Svitolina grateful for Indian wells support after Trump-Inzelskyy Clash | Tennis

Elina Svitolina said she had received an outing of support from Americans after the US President Donald surpasses extraordinary collision with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zenskyy in the White House last month.

Svitolina thanked Americans for their relentless support and compassion in a social media post on Sunday after beating Danielle Collins in the third round of Indian Wells. After beating another local Hoop Jessica Pegula 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday to enter the quarterfinals, Svitolina said reporters that she had received solid support during the tournament in the California Desert.

I feel that since that meeting in the Oval Office I got a lot of support from American people and many people here when I arrived at the tournament, giving love and support to Ukrainians at home for people, she said. Also the enormous support I received, considering that I played three American girls back-to-back. It is great, really special to get that, taking into account all the stress with which all Ukrainians are now confronted at home.

After the Ukrainian had dropped the first set, she collected herself before interrupting the procedure early in the third set. I got a little angry [about losing the first set]A bit fired in that second set and tried to play tennis better, Svitolina said. I am really happy with the way I was able to stay together, even after the rain delay. Pegula went into the day with a seven-match winning streak with a tournament title in Austin, Texas.

Svitolina then faces the Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva in the quarterfinals. Ukrainian players boycotting the tradition after the game of shaking hands on the just when opponents from Russia and Belarus take on, which is a staging for the invasion.

Previously, Iga Swiatek Karolina Muchova 6-1, 6-1, bowed to book her place in the last eight, and put her ruthless Mars through the tournament with a different crooked victory.

The Polish former world no. 1 has only dropped six games since arriving at the event and deposited her Czech opponent with an near-Vloozo-performance performance, included only four errors against a dozen winners while they were never confronted for a breaking point.

To be honest, sometimes matches can be pretty weird, said Swiatek, the Indian Wells champion in 2022 and 2024, after the victory of 57 minutes. It is enough for one player not to feel perfect and the other feels great. Then the difference is suddenly much larger than usual. His tennis. Such things can happen. I certainly used my chances and I used my chances. It's not easy, but well, I can imagine it seems like that.

Swiatek is one of the 10 women with two championships in the event in South California, and she wants to be the first to prevail three times. She got her last victory out of the way for a rain shower who paused all the action. I knew that this big cloud is coming and probably if I don't end up, I will wait a little, said Swiatek. On [the] Last two games, it was already a bit slippery, but I really wanted to end. So I played a little risky, but the shots were still inside.

After waiting for a rain reduction, Swiateek immediately held the momentum, sprinted through the first four games and did not drop a first point in the opening set. Muchova, who enjoyed a wrist operation from an inspired run to the US Open Semi-Final last year, could not find her level in the second set while the errors piling up.

Swiatek concluded it in 57 minutes with a non -reclining service to set up a meeting with Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen from China or Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk who later meet, the weather permits.