Podoroska, from nowhere to the semifinals of the tournament

Zen dedication, discourse around the process and mental focus did not lead her to hold her arms after beating

6-2, 6-4 and becoming the first Argentine to reach the Roland Garros semi-finals since doing so Paula Suárez in 2004. Logical,

is 23 years old and had never entered the final table of the tournament, she already has a streak of 13 consecutive victories and will hit a vertiginous jump in the ranking from the 131st position with which she appeared in the French capital.

Monday will be in the top 50.

She is the first woman in the history of the tournament to reach the semifinals coming from the previous one.

The surname comes from her Ukrainian grandparents, the same nationality as her rival this Tuesday in the

, a player who came with the number three on the back and semifinals in 2019 at Wimbledon and the United States Open, one of the three 'top ten' who still survived in a tournament devastated by the push of women without a past who enjoy an unsuspected adventure in this unusual edition of Roland Garros, which will premiere on Saturday as champion.

Serious injury

Formed at Club Atlético Fisherton de Rosario, Podoroska had only been in the final

of a

.

It was at the 2016 US Open. Then things went awry, with injuries that slowed the growth of this tall, aggressive woman, who builds the points from her powerful forehand.

"I had a serious injury to my right wrist, I had to stop playing for a while and I ran out of money to continue competing," he explained at a press conference.

The contrast of winners against Svitolina explains the outcome well: 30-8 Argentina dominated, tempered when the first two match points slipped away.

Podoroska lives in Alicante, a good location to play the second-order tournaments in which she has been moving until now.

Train with

, one of the forgers of that orderly head, who does not break before an opponent as contrasted as Svitolina, on the most important track on earth.

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