What Keeps Ukrainian Tennis Stars Going While War Rages at Home

Dayana Yastremska arose from her sleep in Odessa, Ukraine one night in late February, the sound of the bombs rippling through her body. "You kind of think it's a dream," she tells TIME. "Then you realize it's reality." Russia had begun its invasion of her country. A day later Yastremska, the 93rd-ranked women's tennis player in the world, and her sister Ivanna, a junior player, hugged their father goodbye in Izmail, where a boat was waiting to take the sisters across the Danube river to Romania.