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The Transformation of Elina Svitolina | The New Yorker

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Four years ago, her country went to war. Then she became a mother. She returned to tennis a different player.

Save this story Save this story You’re reading The Sporting Scene , Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. Sometimes it is hard for Elina Svitolina to find the motivation to get on a tennis court. She wakes up and checks the news from Ukraine, and she sees that Odesa, where she was born, has been bombed, or that another swath of Kharkiv—the city where she turned herself into the greatest player Ukraine has ever produced, and which is just miles from the Russian front—is in rubble. She thinks about her grandmother, who still lives in Odesa, and worries about the rest of her family

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