Elina Svitolina comes from set down to battle past Belinda Bencic at French Open

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/monfils-elina/jyngIesG/"]Svitolina[/a], who is looking for ‌her maiden Grand Slam title at the age of 31, arrived at ‌Roland Garros in superb form ⁠after ‌winning the Rome title by beating [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gauff-coco/f5BXmEH6/"]Coco ​Gauff[/a] in the final. She was taken to three sets ​in her Paris opener, before easy wins in the previous two rounds ⁠to build ​momentum ahead of the clash with 11th seed [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bencic-belinda/ObGlDvu0/"]Bencic[/a] on Court Philippe Chatrier.[/p][embed guid="7c8895cb-674d-481c-b462-b6b59af6f425" url="https://x.com/WTA/status/2061076070967677280" social-type="twitter" /][p]Bencic, also seeking her ‌first major title following her gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics five years ago, fended off a late charge from Svitolina to take the opening set. Svitolina quickly hit her stride to level up the contest at one-set apiece, before ‌turning up the heat in ​the third set as Bencic's challenge ‌faded.[/p][p]She closed out the win by blanking her opponent to secure a meeting with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kostyuk-marta/8CZqQdSa/"]Kostyuk[/a], who earlier defeated four-time French ⁠Open champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/swiatek-iga/jNyZsXZe/"]⁠Iga Swiatek[/a].[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/bencic-b-ObGlDvu0/svitolina-e-jyngIesG/?mid=ziou9syS"][b]Check out the match stats here[/b].[/a][/p]