The world No. 101 on Wednesday reached the third round of the women's singles at the Wimbledon tennis championships in the British capital after defeating fellow Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina 3-6 6-4 6-3.
Tsurenko said all she can do is keep playing and donating 10 percent of her prize money to help, the BBC reported.
"It's just horrible what is going on in Ukraine," the 33-year-old said, as quoted by the British public broadcaster on its website.
"I just feel terrible and I feel very guilty," she added. "And I feel that it seems like there is nothing I can do."
Meanwhile, Kalinina said: "We are praying for peace, but I can't even imagine when we would be able to go home."
Kalinina was quoted as saying earlier this week that she was planning to use her Wimbledon prize money to reconstruct the home of her parents after it was bombed by Russian troops.
Before her match against Tsurenko, Kalinina said the results on the court were not a priority for her while Russian missiles were falling on her home city of Kyiv.
Anhelina Kalinina. Photo: PAP/EPA/KIERAN GALVIN
Russian and Belarusian players have been banned from this year’s Wimbledon in response to their countries’ invasion of Ukraine.
Thursday is day four of Wimbledon and day 127 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, bbc.com