Harry Styles has invited Elina Svitolina to see him on tour after the tennis star was compelled to overlook his Vienna live performance due to her Wimbledon successful streak.
The 28-year-old Ukrainian wildcard is thru to the quarter-finals after beating Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, 33, in a three-set thriller on Court One on Sunday.
Ahead of their fourth-round match, Svitolina revealed that her run at SW19 meant she needed to give away tickets to Saturday's gig she had deliberate to attend within the Austrian capital.
She wrote on social media: "Hey guys!! I was supposed to go to see my fav @harrystyles concert in Vienna tomorrow.
"But Wimbledon modified my plans [along with three crying emojis]. Someone wish to go? I've two tickets."
The official Wimbledon Instagram account shared her dilemma with followers, writing: "You win some, you lose some."
Styles then noticed the submit and supplied her tickets himself, writing: "Congratulations! We have four shows to go, you're welcome at any of them. Good luck with the rest of the tournament. H."
The remaining dates in his Love On Tour this month are Barcelona on Wednesday, Madrid on Friday, Lisbon on 18 July and Reggio Emilia in Italy on 22 July.
If she will get all the way in which to Saturday's girls's singles closing, she may catch Styles in Portugal or Italy.
At the Vienna gig, the UK pop star was hit within the face by a thrown object as he carried out on stage.
Videos shared on-line from the live performance on the Ernst Happel Stadium confirmed him strolling throughout the stage earlier than an merchandise flies by means of the air and strikes him close to his eye.
After being struck, he may be seen wincing in ache earlier than bending over whereas clutching his face in his arms.
Meanwhile, it has been a stellar run for the Ukrainian sports star who started enjoying tennis once more in January after giving delivery final October.
There was controversy after her win towards Azarenka when the crowd booed the Belarusian as she walked off court docket.
They might have jeered her after she didn't shake arms with Svitolina following her victory.
But the Ukrainian has beforehand made it clear she is just not ready to shake arms with any Russian or Belarusian participant because the invasion of her house nation.
Azarenka gave a protracted, lingering stare earlier than banging her fists collectively in annoyance as she walked off Court One.
She later accused Wimbledon followers of being "drunk".
She stated: "She [Svitolina] doesn't want to shake hands with Russian, Belarusian people. I respected her decision. What should I have done? Stayed and waited? There's no thing that I could do that would have been right, so I just did what I thought was respectful towards her decision."
She added: "I thought it was a great tennis match. If people are going to be focusing only on handshakes or a quite drunk crowd, booing in the end, that's a shame."
Svitolina, a former world quantity three, was herself booed off on the French Open, the place she additionally made the final eight, for refusing to shake arms with Russian and Belarusian opponents.
But at Wimbledon, it was Azarenka who obtained loud jeers after placing her hand as much as acknowledge Svitolina earlier than leaving the court docket.
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