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Roland-Garros: "I have to continue and fight" ... Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, so far from Odessa

2022-05-21T05:10:00.174Z


Three months after fleeing Ukraine with her younger sister Ivanna, the world number 80 is about to play her third Grand Slam in Paris.


At the end of a sunny day, Dayana Yastremska, 22, settles into a sofa on the terrace of an opulent hotel in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), a stone's throw from the Paris Country Club, where she has just finished her training for Roland-Garros (she will face the American Riske, 43rd, in the first round).

2,700 km by land but light years from the Odessa parking lot in which the Ukrainian, world No. 80, spent two nights with her family at the time of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.

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Source: leparis

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