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Dave JAMES

Tearful Svitolina Wears Black Ribbon At Wimbledon After Ukraine Hospital Attack

Tearful day: Elina Svitolina wears a black ribbon in her win over China's Wang Xinyu (Credit: AFP)

Ukraine's Elina Svitolina wore a black ribbon and broke down in tears as she made the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Monday, hours after a Russian missile barrage killed 36 people and ripped open a children's hospital in Kyiv.

The tennis star said she hoped her win would at least provide "a small light" in the aftermath of an attack described by the French foreign ministry as "barbaric".

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