She also won the Cairo doubles tournament, playing with Kamilla Rakhimova. In February, Kostyuk won the $60k Cairo Open. 2020: US Open third round, French Open quarterfinal in doubles In 2019, she won two further ITF titles, and reached the third round of the WTA tournament at Strasbourg. Kostyuk won the Burnie International, a $60k tournament in Australia, in February 2018, and reached the final of the Zhuhai Open, also a $60k tournament, in March, but did not sustain her level of success in the rest of the year. However, she fell in round three to fourth seed and compatriot player Elina Svitolina. In doing this, she became the youngest player to reach the third round of a Grand Slam event since Mirjana Lučić-Baroni reached the same stage at the 1997 US Open. In the second round, she defeated Australian wildcard Olivia Rogowska in straight sets. By defeating Peng Shuai in the first round, Kostyuk became the youngest player to win a main-draw match in Melbourne since Martina Hingis in 1996. Having received a wildcard entry into the qualifying tournament, she defeated Arina Rodionova, Daniela Seguel and Barbora Krejčíková to become the first player born in 2002 to play in a Grand Slam main draw. Kostyuk made her main draw tour-level debut at the Australian Open. 2018–2019: Grand Slam debut and first two wins On 30 October 2017, Kostyuk achieved a career-high junior ranking of world No. In October, she won the year-end junior girls tournament, the ITF Junior Masters in Chengdu, China. In September, she won the girls' doubles title at the US Open, playing with Olga Danilović. In May, she won an ITF tournament in Dunakeszi (Hungary) without dropping a set, becoming the youngest Ukrainian to win a professional singles title. In January 2017, Kostyuk won the Australian Open girls' singles championships. The following month, she won the 2016 Petits As in Tarbes, France, in both singles and doubles (with Kamilla Bartone). In December 2015, Marta won the "14-and-under" competition at the Orange Bowl in Florida. She was also coached by her maternal uncle Taras Beiko, who had played for the USSR and Ukraine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. So that was kind of my motivation – if I played tennis, I'd be around her more often". She described her initial experience in tennis at age five: "My mom was always working a lot as a coach, and the first time I went to the courts to train, I just understood that if I started doing tennis, I'd get to spend more time with my mom. Kostyuk started playing tennis at a young age at the Antey Tennis Club, on the west side of Kyiv, coached by her mother. Marta is a cousin of professional football players Vadym Slavov and Myroslav Slavov. Marta is a sister of collegiate tennis player Mariya Kostyuk, who competed for Chicago State University and Southeast Missouri State University. Her uncle Taras Beyko is also a retired tennis player. 391, and won a $10k title in her home city of Kyiv in 1994, and represented a Ukrainian tennis team. Her father was the technical director of the Antey Cup, a junior tennis tournament in Kyiv her mother was a professional tennis player who reached a career-high WTA ranking of No. Marta is the daughter of Oleh Kostyuk and his wife, Talina Beiko. Best Grand Slam tournament results details. Career Grand Slam tournament statistics.
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