{"id":1397381,"date":"2026-05-25T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/elina-svitolina-started-roland-garros-2026-with-a-tough-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:57:49","slug":"elina-svitolina-started-roland-garros-2026-with-a-tough-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/elina-svitolina-started-roland-garros-2026-with-a-tough-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitolina strikes first: hard-fought victory ignites her 2026 Roland Garros campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1089\"><strong>Ukrainian tennis player <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Elina Svitolina<\/span><\/span> made a strong start at Roland Garros 2026, advancing to the second round after a successful opening match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1276\">In the first round, the world number seven defeated Hungary&#8217;s Anna Bondar in three sets\u20143:6, 6:1, and 7:6 (10:3).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1278\" data-end=\"1496\">The match proved difficult for the Ukrainian. In the deciding set, Svitolina trailed 1:3 but managed to get back into the game. When the score became 5:4 in Svitolina&#8217;s favor, the Ukrainian could have ended the match, but her opponent came back into the game and reached the super tie-break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1571\">As a result, the Ukrainian tennis player confidently won the match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1686\">This is Svitolina&#8217;s seventh consecutive victory. Before Roland Garros began, the Ukrainian won the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1861\">Elina also continued her unbeaten streak in the first rounds of the French Grand Slam\u2014in 13 appearances in the main draw, she never crashed out after the opening match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1863\" data-end=\"1970\">Svitolina&#8217;s best results at Roland Garros remain quarterfinals in 2017, 2020, 2023, and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1972\" data-end=\"2062\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In the next round, the Ukrainian will play the winner of the match between Caitlin Quevedo and Leoli Zhanzhan.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina made a strong start at Roland Garros 2026, advancing to the second round after a successful opening match. &nbsp; In the first round, the world number seven defeated Hungary&#8217;s Anna Bondar in three sets\u20143:6, 6:1, and 7:6 (10:3). &nbsp; The match proved difficult for the Ukrainian. In the deciding set, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1382508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76895],"class_list":["post-1397381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397493,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397381\/revisions\/1397493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}