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Marta Kostyuk plays through grief after missile strike near family home in Kyiv

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Owen Lewis

4d ago· 7 min readenNews

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.

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Most of the morning I felt sick …if it was 100 metres closer, I probably wouldn't have a mom and a sister today
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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The morning of her first round-match at Roland-Garros, Marta Kostyuk learned that a Russian missile attack had killed four people in her native Kyiv, Ukraine, dangerously near her parents’ house. “Most of the morning I felt sick …if it was 100 metres clos

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