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Anhelina Kalinina: "In Ukraine my parents' place was a little damaged, my uncle's home has been completely destroyed" 25-year-old Ukrainian tennis player talked to AFP after her loss to Jessica Pegula at the French Open After Roland Garros Anhelina Kalinina will overtake Elina Svitolina in the WTA rankings to become Ukraine’s No.1 for the first time in her career. Kalinina admits that since the unprovoked invasion by Russia she keeps moving from hotel to hotel. Anhelina left Ukraine 7 days before the start of the full-scale Russian aggression and in the last 3 months she spent all her life abroad. "I left, like all sane people. It feels horrible. I just go from tournament to tournament, hotel to hotel. I have no permanent base". "I used to live and practice in Kyiv. Every two or three weeks I would go and spend two weeks there when I could. Now, we jump from one country to another. Yes, it's just horrible. I have never lived abroad but I know that I don't have a choice. Everyone is struggling. Every day I ask myself the question 'when will I be home again?' But I don't see any opportunity right now". >>> “Life was in full swing here. Now ruins are all around”. Ukraine’s Andrei Medvedev visits National Tennis Center At home in Kyiv, her parents and 18-year-old brother still live. Her own home has survived Russian rockets. "My parents' place was a little damaged; my uncle's home has been completely destroyed. I can't imagine what it's like. My brother is just 18, what he's going through, I don't want to explain". Original story Website BTU - Ukrainian Tennis - joins the fundraising to help internally displaced persons in Dnipropetrovsk Region
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