Elina Svitolina has spoken on how tennis is helping people in Ukraine

Ukraine's has spoken movingly about the role tennis is playing to lift spirits in her troubled country.

Svitolina will feel the support back home on Monday, having returned to in February to hold tennis camps for children.

‘Tennis in Ukraine has been put back 10 years,’ the 28-year-old said. ‘Lots of clubs been destroyed by missiles and I cannot imagine when it will be back to normal.

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