"I feel so much support from everybody" - Yastremska continues to excel in Lyon

Wildcard Dayana Yastremska delivered another gritty performance to reach the Open 6ème Sens - Métropole de Lyon semifinals with a 6-4, 7-6(3) over No.5 seed Jasmine Paolini in 1 hour and 41 minutes.

It was Yastremska's first win in four meetings against the Italian, who inflicted three defeats on her last autumn in Portoroz, Courmayeur and Linz. The result puts her into her first semifinal since Hamburg last July. Something is clicking for Yastremska this week in Lyon and she credited the crowd who openly supports her since day one.

"I feel so much support from everybody. Maybe in a tough moment, I can hear and especially feel how people are supporting me here, and that's another win for Ukraine."

Despite the win, Yastremska was very criticial of her play saying after the match:

"Today I was all the time losing my focus. I was pretty angry because I was doing sometimes such easy mistakes. I was trying my best to show a good level but every time I would make mistakes, I don't know why."

Even so, she is keeping a positive outcome especially consdering the circumstances going on back home:

"With everything I've been through, I have to push myself and fight to the end. That's what I was thinking about in the moments it was pretty tight, or when I felt really tired or a bit stressed. Every match I play here is nothing to lose. I'm giving everything I have. When I arrived here I was very tired, emotionally and mentally, so now with every win I get those emotions and that energy back."