“Marta Kostiuk spoke about the decline in her career”, — write: sport.ua
“I can say that before I started working with a psychologist – and I was almost 20 at that time – my whole career was just complete depression. It was very difficult, because I immediately produced a great result – I reached the third round at the Australian Open-2018.
This rise was followed by a huge decline. Somewhere from 2019… no, even in 2020, I began to move forward with small steps. It was very difficult. I couldn’t get into the top 100, I played everywhere in the qualifiers – it’s also like a separate tour in which you also need to win, no one will give you anything there.
I got stuck in one stage – I couldn’t enter the hundred. It was a very instructive, very important stage for me, for my development. With all that, he was just hellish. Then I gradually steadily entered the top 50, then it was a little easier.
And those top-10 wins in the middle of last year helped me a lot, they kind of gave me back the belief that I can do it. And now, when you are already in such a position, you no longer have a choice: you have to believe, otherwise you have no chance,” Kostiuk said.
