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French Open: Marta Kostyuk Overcomes Fear For Family To Advance In Paris
French Open: Marta Kostyuk battled through emotions and reached a straight-sets victory over Oksana Selekhmeteva at Roland Garros on Sunday, but her 6-2, 6-3 triumph came mere hours after learning a missile strike had landed just 100m from her family home in Kyiv.
Her first-round match at the French Open lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes, though the tennis was secondary given the situation that has surrounded her in recent weeks and months, and in recent hours too. She only discovered earlier that day that the missile had hit perilously close to where her mother, sister and grandmother's sister had been.
"Right now, I think it was just the closest that it has ever been to my house and this what probably makes it the most emotional," Kostyuk stated post-match. "There are obviously better days, worse days, but yeah, this one was, I would say, top three worst ones."
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