The second racket of Ukraine, Marta Kostyuk (69th in the world ranking), who showed her new boyfriend, continues her victorious march at the prestigious WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide, Australia with a prize fund of 826 thousand dollars.
In the second round bout, the 20-year-old from Kiev sensationally defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion, 23-year-old Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan, defeating her opponent in three sets in 2 hours and 25 minutes - 6:7 (5), 6:2, 6:3.
By the way, at the post-match press conference after the triumph at Wimbledon, a native of Moscow was asked how she felt about the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine. Then Elena “pretended to be a hose”, pretending that she did not understand what was at stake.
Be that as it may, Rybakina lost to her rivals from Ukraine for the fourth match in a row, starting a series of failures in the duel for the “bronze” of the Olympic Games in Tokyo against Elina Svetolina.
Kostyuk made it to the quarterfinals of the competition on the Green Continent, having beaten Spaniard Christina Buksa (7:6, 6:4), Mayar Sheriff from Egypt (6:3, 6:1) in the qualification, and in the first round match Australian Jamie Forlis ( 6:1, 3:6, 6:4), $20,465 and 100 rating points. Marta will challenge her ticket to the semi-finals in a duel with the winner of the match between Ons Jaber from Tunisia (2nd) and Romanian Sorana Kirstey (45th).
Earlier reported that Marta Kostyuk won the prestigious doubles tournament in France.
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