It was probably my first big win so I had to prove that I have this level so I had to win it. Not many can follow up a breakthrough like the one she had in Melbourne with more success right away and Kostyuk herself isn’t sure how she did it. Kostyuk kept up her good form and immediately won a $60k ITF title in Burnie then upset world No. The then 15-year-old took out Peng Shuai and Olivia Rogowska to become the youngest female player to win a main draw match at the Australian Open since Martina Hingis in 1996 and the youngest to make the third round of a Slam since Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in the 1997 US Open. Kostyuk exploded onto the scene last January when she qualified for her maiden Grand Slam at the Australian Open, where she had won the junior title in 2017. The article Marta Kostyuk’s stinging rebuke of Russian and Belarusian players: ‘They pretend that they are the victims’ appeared first on like the one I played today are one of the reasons I started playing tennis in a first place… pushing yourself to the limits, fighting for every ball, saving match points and in the end, winning the match… Let’s get ready for Round 2 💪💪💪 📸 post shared by Marta Kostyuk / Марта Костюк on at 2:37pm PDT “It requires a lot of mental strength and work, I’m just trying to do my best.” Some weeks were extremely difficult, it went to the extent of thinking, ‘What’s the purpose of even being here alive?’ And me, as an emotional person, it’s not so easy. One day you’re okay, the other day you’re horrible, something happens, you took it very close to you and you react differently every time. “Because I decided that the tennis court is where I’m going to do my fight – because I could go back to Ukraine and volunteer but I honestly, still to this point, don’t know if it would make me feel better than playing, but I chose this and I will never know the other part.” I think that’s the thing I should do, I have to do, and it’s my position since the first day,” she said. “It definitely helps me when I’m winning to speak out, to let people hear me. While many players have preferred to keep to themselves, Kostyuk has been vocal and the teenager feels it has helped her.
So based on that, which is not political, the decision was made, so let’s be clear about this.” So many excuses for so many weeks.”Īs for Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players, she added: “There is a list of countries that on the government level signed or voted that everything that is happening in Ukraine is genocide. “If your choice is to live and keep living in the country that doesn’t give you freedom, like basic human freedom… there are so many possibilities to do something. Who left Russia because of this, because they cannot live in the country like this, they cannot live in a country where they are not allowed to speak or they’re not allowed to do things. “Come on, it’s been two months, they have all the possibilities to move their family somewhere, it’s just the sacrifice that people choose not to make it’s not like you have no choice.
“Let’s be honest, players who are at least in the top 50 have all the money to move their families,” she said. Kostyuk, though, says they can go further. Several players, including world No 1 Novak Djokovic and Andrey Rublev, have criticised the decision as they insist there is not much more they can do then condemn the invasion. However, the All England Club and Lawn Tennis Association upped the ante as they confirmed that players from those two countries will not be allowed to play at grass-court events in the UK, including Wimbledon.
Players from Russia and Belarus are allowed to play at ATP, WTA and ITF events, but they can only compete as neutrals with no flags or anthems allowed.
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