Helene Elliott: Dayana Yastremska recounts harrowing experience of living in a Ukrainian war zone
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2022
3 minutes
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Dayana Yastremska shouldn’t know so much about the terrible cost of warfare.
The 21-year-old Ukrainian should be able to focus on improving her tennis game, on polishing an aggressive style that has allowed her to rank as high as 21st in the world. She shouldn’t have to be familiar with what to do when civil authorities issue take-cover warnings. She shouldn’t have to understand so well why living near the Black Sea makes her hometown of Odessa a tempting target for the Russian invaders who have attacked her homeland the
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