Marta Kostyuk admits she “hit the wall many instances” and finds it “irritating” that she hasn’t been capable of get the job completed in opposition to the very best gamers and take her profession to a brand new stage.
After successful 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 this planet. Initially of the 2024 season, the Ukrainian additionally made her maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal on the Australian Open.
For the 2025 season, Kostyuk was most likely hoping to make a louder noise on the Grand Slam stage and likewise attain the top-10 membership. However by way of 19 tournaments performed this 12 months, the 23-year-old is simply 26-19 and she or he is at present sitting at No. 26 on this planet.
On the Grand Slam stage, 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 stable WTA 1000 runs, which had been minimize brief by the likes of Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula, Zheng Qinwen, and Elena Rybakina.
Kostyuk: I used to be hitting the wall many, many instances this 12 months
“This 12 months I had a number of developments outdoors of the court docket with the best way I do issues and the best way I strategy life, however I simply really feel I used to be hitting the wall many, many instances this 12 months. I misplaced a number of matches to prime 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 massive 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 precisely the place she was a 12 months in the past.
“Usually it was a great 12 months, however by some means I ended up the place I’m and it was not adequate for me, for positive,” the 23-year-old added.
Kostyuk is at present in Wuhan, the place she stated she is taking part in the final match of her 2025 season. The Ukrainian faces Muchova within the Wuhan first spherical.
