Svitolina even supplied options as she slammed the tennis world for his or her empty phrases about tensions between gamers. “You know, there is so many things that we can do and help in different ways. You can donate couple of dollars might help and save live. Or donate your time to something to help people. You know, we are missing the main point of all of that and talking, talking, talking about nothing. Well, here, empty, completely empty words. Not helping,” she mentioned.

The Ukrainian’s assertion comes two days after she pledged to donate all of her prize cash to youngsters in her dwelling nation after profitable her first post-pregnancy title in Strasbourg. And Svitolina defined how she tried to funnel her donations into the areas that wanted them essentially the most.

“After Strasbourg, yes, I'm donating this money to the kids of Ukraine. We will see what exact way it's gonna go,” she defined. “Like, for instance, we had a fund-raising occasion in States that was joined along with Lesia Tsurenko. We donated that cash to the college that was in Kharkiv that was broken utterly, for the college for the children who has disabilities, so to revive that faculty.