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Making it to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon is exciting, but seeingHarry Stylesin concert is a close second.
Ukrainian tennis playerElina Svitolinatook toInstagramSunday to reveal that she had to give up her tickets to Styles’ Saturday gig in Vienna, Austria because she continued to rack up wins at Wimbledon. In an Instagram post, which was reshared on Wimbledon’s official account, she offered up her tickets as she expressed her sadness at missing the show.
The 28-year-old wrote: “Hey guys!! I was supposed to go see my fav Harry Styles concert in Vienna tomorrow… But Wimbledon changed my plans. Someone want to go? I have two tickets.”
She madeanother postearlier that day saying, “Missing@harrystylesconcert 🥲 but well.. it’s ok I guess🤷🏼♀️😅@wimbledon.” But little did she know, she would soon have a personal invitation from the 29-year-old artist himself.
To Svitolina’s surprise, the “As it Was” singer quickly replied to the offer in a comment that garnered over 37,000 likes, writing, “Congratulations! We have four shows to go, you’re welcome at any of them. Good luck with the rest of the tournament. H”
Fans went wild over the unexpected interaction, with one saying, “Harry’s comment 🥹 You won 💘,” while another added: “If you win@wimbledon, maybe Harry can come to you. 🙌”
After advancing to the fourth round at Wimbledon, Svitolina played against former world No. 1Victoria Azarenka. The match on Sunday, which Svitolina won, was the first between a Ukrainian player and Russian player at this year’s tournament.
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Svitolina won the intense three-set match with an ace in the final-set tiebreak, and then refused to shake the Belarusian player hand post-game — something the world No. 76 player has been doing consistently given theongoing war in her home country.
When Svitolina refused a handshake, Azarenka stood at the net and offered a hand gesture as appreciation instead. As she walked off the court,the crowd booed the two-time Australian Open champ.
Azarenka, the No. 19 seed, told reporters after the game that she respected Svitolina’s decision, and thought it was unfair of the crowd to react in such a way.
“What should I have done? Stayed and waited? I mean, there’s no thing that I could do that would have been right, so I just did what I thought was respectful towards her decision,” Azarenka said.
source: people.com
