Marta Kostyuk plays through grief after missile strike near family home in Kyiv
By
Owen Lewis
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Summary
Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk played through the emotional trauma of learning that a Russian missile attack near her parents' home in Kyiv killed four people, just hours before her first-round match at Roland-Garros. Despite the psychological burden, she won her opening match and later competed fiercely against four-time champion Iga Swiatek, showcasing remarkable compartmentalization and resilience under extraordinary circumstances.
Key quotes
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Compartmentalization sometimes impresses as much as any athletic exploit
In the middle of her fourth-round match against four-time champion Iga Swiatek, Kostyuk was dancing
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