Kiev resident Marta Kostyuk defeated Russian Maria Timofeeva in the fourth round match of the Australian Open 2024
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The game lasted 1 hour 16 minutes. The Ukrainian performed one ace, made one double fault and converted 4 out of 5 break points.
The 21-year-old Kiev woman will play at the 1/4 final stage of the Grand Slam series tournament for the first time in her career. The highest achievement for this is the fourth round at Roland Garros 2021.
In the quarterfinals, Kostyuk’s opponent will be the fourth racket of the world, American Coco Goff.
Kostyuk is the fourth Ukrainian tennis player in history to play in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam singles tournament.
Quarterfinals of Ukrainian women at majors:
- 10 – Elina Svitolina
- 1 – Ekaterina Bondarenko (US Open-2009), Lesya Tsurenko (US Open-2018), Marta Kostyuk (Australian Open-2024)
- 21-year-old Marta became the second youngest Ukrainian to reach the quarter finals: Elina first reached this stage at the age of 20 (Roland Garros 2015).
In the history of Ukraine, only Elina Svitolina made it to the semifinals at the grandslam.
After winning the match at the Australian Open, Elina wrote on the camera “Ukraine. Glory to the heroes”
On Saturday, January 20, the Ukrainian tennis player beat Victoria Golubich from Switzerland in the third round of the Australian Open.
Ukrainian tennis players initiated a new flash mob. Let us recall that earlier a similar gesture was demonstrated by another Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremskaya.
Yastremskaya will play on the night of Monday, January 22 with neutral Azarenka (Belarus), and Svitolina will play against the Czech Noskova.
Source: Racurs
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