“Andy praised Martha for her performances last season”, — write: sport.ua
“I think that when it comes to anyone from Ukraine, you need to start with this clarification… Can you imagine what it’s like to spend the best year of your career when your country is in absolute chaos. How can you separate it or take and use the need of your fellow citizens for some good events to achieve the highest results in your career?
Kostiuk won matches every week. I think she did well in 2024 – it’s just stability in general. I asked Mike [продюсера подкасту] look at her results before we talk and it looks like this: two rounds here, three rounds there, four rounds somewhere else. Just such an example of stability during the year. And from someone whose reputation until 2024 was perhaps a little more emotionally unstable, that’s quite an achievement. How did she refute this narrative? Winning matches every week in 2024.
Overall it was a good season for Marta. And with a little more match stability, let’s see what she will show next year. She is only 22 years old. Her inconsistency is not due to her not winning matches every week. But to reach a Grand Slam final, you have to have six good matches in a short period of time, right? You can’t win two, lose one, win two, lose one. If we are talking about the path in the tournament, then the progression should be from round of 16 to quarter finals, from quarter finals to semi finals, from semi finals to finals, right? So let’s add another good match to the week. But kudos to her because her results used to look like a heart rate monitor, right? With peaks and troughs. And, I think that now everything has evened out a little bit. Now she needs to raise the bar a little every week. But you have to give her credit for the year she had.”
Kostyuk will start 2025 at the WTA 500 tournament in Brisbane, where she will compete in both singles and doubles (with Alyona Ostapenko).