M Kostyuk biography

Martha Olegovna Kostyuk was born on June 28 in the city of Kyiv. The education of the first tennis players were her mother and native Uncle Taras Beiko. Then Oleg Krivosheev became her mentor. Mother - Talina in girlishness Baiko professionally engaged in tennis. She held several meetings for the Ukrainian team. Kostyuk met with Russian tennis player Alexei Zakharov. Career was born in a family where all her relatives played in tennis, Martha picked up a racket very early.

At the age of thirteen, the Ukrainian struck everyone in two tournaments in the United States. Then, only a few months later, the young tennis player turned out to be stronger than all at the Les Petits AS tournament. Moreover, the girl won both in solitary and in a paired category. Thanks to these victories, the Kiev woman headed the Tennis Europe rating among juniors.

In the same year, March received an invitation to the Ukrainian team. Together with her partners, Kostyuk won two European cups and the World Cup. In August, she held the first meeting at an adult level. The first pancake was lumpy. At the tournament in Kharkov, Marta lost already in the first match, taking only one game. At the beginning of the year, March went to Australia. At the first junior tournament of the Grand Slam stage, it was seeded under the mop.

Despite the fact that the Ukrainian was not considered as a favorite, Kostyuk beat all rivals. In a decisive meeting, she was stronger than Rebecca Masarova from Switzerland. In the first set, she won the second set almost completely left behind the Swiss, but in the final set, the Ukrainian won the Australian Open Cup in this way. Six months later, Kostyuk won her first adult tournament.

The young tennis player, without giving the opponents a single set, won the tournament in the Hungarian city of Dunakesi. Kostyuk also turned out to be stronger than all at the final tournament in the age category up to 18 years in Chinese chanddu. Next year, March debuted at the adult opening championship of Australia. Having won two fights, Kostyuk hit Elin Svitolin. A more experienced compatriot was stronger, winning two sets with the same score after Australia, the Ukrainian went to Switzerland, where she won the tournament in Bern.

Then, in the Ukrainian final, at the tournament in Chinese Zhuhai, Marta lost to Marina Zanevskaya. This time she was opposed by Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, who was then the seventh racket of the world. Martha lost the match, but was able to take one set from Garcia. But the performance on Roland Garros was completely unsuccessful. Martha covered the racket after the first match. But in the paired category, along with Belarusian Alexandra Sasnovich, she reached the quarterfinals, losing only to future winners.

At the end of the year, March burst into the top of the best tennis players in the world. Before the beginning of the year, Kostyuk set herself a goal to enter the top, this helped her rise from 99 to a place in the WTA ranking. After the tournament in the UAE, the Ukrainian had to spend two weeks on quarantine in Melbourne due to the fact that one of the passengers of the flight of Dubai-Melburne for Koronavirus showed a positive result.

After a two -week self -isolation, the Ukrainian took part in the Australian open championship. But in the first round of March in two sets lost to Veronica Kudermetova from Russia. According to Kostyuk, the virus greatly struck its lungs and other parts of the body.

After the illness, she took part in Miami Open. However, already in the first round, she had to cover the racket. In a stubborn struggle, she lost to the representative of Bulgaria Tsvetan Pyronkova. At the tournament in Istanbul, Martha again stopped a step away from the finals. After Istanbul, Kostyuk climbed another step in the ranking, becoming th. However, already at the first stage of the main tournament, Marta lost to the Russian woman Ekaterina Alexandrova.

In two sets, the Ukrainian took only four game. In May, Kostyuk will take part in the main grid Roland Garros. In order to prepare for one of the main tournaments of a large helmet, the Ukrainian star with WTA in Parma and Strasbourg, where it was declared in qualifications. In total, by the age of eighteen, the prizes brought the costume of thousand dollars.