Marta Kostyuk admits she "hit the wall many occasions" and finds it "irritating" that she hasn't been in a position to get the job finished in opposition to the most effective gamers and take her profession to a brand new degree.
After profitable her maiden WTA title in Austin two years in the past, Kostyuk additionally broke into the top-20 for the primary time in her profession final 12 months and achieved her greatest rating of No. 16 on the planet. At first of the 2024 season, the Ukrainian additionally made her maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal on the Australian Open.
For the 2025 season, Kostyuk was in all probability hoping to make a louder noise on the Grand Slam degree and in addition attain the top-10 membership. However by means of 19 tournaments performed this 12 months, the 23-year-old is simply 26-19 and he or she is at the moment sitting at No. 26 on the planet.
On the Grand Slam degree, Kostyuk's greatest outcomes of 2025 got here on the Australian Open (misplaced to Paula Badosa within the third spherical) and the US Open (misplaced to Karolina Muchova within the round-of-16). The Ukrainian additionally had a few strong WTA 1000 runs, which have been lower brief by the likes of Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula, Zheng Qinwen, and Elena Rybakina.
Kostyuk: I used to be hitting the wall many, many occasions this 12 months
“This 12 months I had lots of developments outdoors of the courtroom with the best way I do issues and the best way I method life, however I simply really feel I used to be hitting the wall many, many occasions this 12 months. I misplaced lots of matches to high ten gamers, particularly within the Grand Slam tournaments. I used to be going far in each one and I simply couldn’t recover from the road in opposition to these large gamers. More often than not, I used to be actually shut and I simply really feel like because the 12 months come to an finish, it has simply been irritating," the world No. 26 informed Tennis365.
Kostyuk nonetheless described her 12 months as "constant," however admits she is strictly the place she was a 12 months in the past.
“Usually it was a superb 12 months, however someway I ended up the place I’m and it was not ok for me, for certain," the 23-year-old added.
Kostyuk is at the moment in Wuhan, the place she stated she is enjoying the final event of her 2025 season. The Ukrainian faces Muchova within the Wuhan first spherical.
