Elena Rybakina has reached the French Open quarter-finals with a win over Elina Svitolina. -AP
World number four Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan has eased to a 6-4 6-3 victory over Elena Svitolina to reach her second French Open quarter-final.
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After a sluggish start on Monday with both players dropping serve, Russian-born Rybakina upped her level and cruised through the first set.
In the second set, the 29-year-old Svitolina was no match again for Rybakina as the 19th-ranked Ukrainian showed signs of fatigue from the start and lacked precision throughout.
Odessa-born Svitolina had reached the quarter-finals four times before, including 2023, but was unable to trouble the former Wimbledon champion.
Rybakina, who made the last-eight for the first time since 2021, faces the winner out of 70th-ranked Russian Elina Avanesyan and 15th-ranked Italian Jasmine Paolini.
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