Svitolina overcame the first racket of the world but lost to two-time Wimbledon winner

“It’s because of exhaustion”, “All the forces went in opposition with Serena Williams” – these findings have fans after the defeat of Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunately, the first racquet of Ukraine lost to Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic with no chance – 2: 6, 0: 6. Throughout the match that lasted only 48 minutes, Svitolina won only two games, allowing the opponent to make four consecutive breaks. This Ukrainian won only 9 percent of points on first serve and 13 percent – after the second. Therefore, the final score for Kvitova is quite natural.

After defeating the first racket of the world, American Serena Williams, Svitoliyna got an extra day of rest because of the deteriorating weather conditions. However, this does not help Ukrainian sportswoman fully recuperate, primarily moral, to fight with the two-time winner of the “Wimbledon.”

In any case, the sensational victory over Serena Williams (4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 0) will forever remain in the history of the Olympic Games and Ukrainian sport. After the defeat Williams, Jr., who, as noted by some media, was not in the best conditioning through injury, said very flattering words to our tennis “Svitolina made a significant step forward in the game plan, if remember our last match before. Elina always had had a clear desire to win. But now she reinforced it by this game. ”

“I saw it!” Thus spoke colleagues after the broadcast of Svitolina confrontation with Serena Williams. Unfortunately, the First National channel didn’t show the game of Elina Svitolyna with Petra Kvitova. Here’s how it explained the general director of the First National Channel Zurab Alasania: “I must warn spectators and fans: broadcast matches involving Elina Svitolina, which took place yesterday but was postponed (due to rain) today, at 18.30 – we’ll not see . In short, things are so (it will also be the answer to all the allegations “why do you show that one, but does not show this one”): Firm OBS, authorized Olympic Committee, which transmits the signal from Rio worldwide, selects 12 events from 90-100 occurring in every moment of the Olympics and give the signal. We have the right to choose only one event from this list and show it. Only one broadcasting channel and only on the territory of the country. We did not find Svitolina in the schedule for today. And then we began to bombard OBS by letters and calls.

Except OBS, we conducted negotiations with Czech colleagues to buy a separate signal that Czech team be rented for us in Rio. A five-minute conversation with CEO of OBS ended with his refusal to change the schedule. Why the match is not on the schedule, he refused to explain, but he also did not agree to allow the Czech team to sell a signal for us.  I understand that it doesn’t help against malicious charges about the First National Chanel,  but I miss with the audience, too. “