04-06-2023 21:29 via theguardian.com

Battling Svitolina outlasts Kasatkina to make French Open quarter-finals

Ukraine winner shares thumbs up with Russian after match‘I wouldn’t dream about this when I was giving birth’As Elina Svitolina stepped up to the baseline to contest her second match point 20 minutes after squandering her first, she sprinted on the spot, furiously swung forehands and backhands in the air and did everything to show she was ready. Nearly two hours into her fourth-round battle with Daria Kasatkina, seemingly every exchange had been long, intense and physical, but
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