Ukrainian tennis / WTA – Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk will play for the title at the WTA 500 tournament in Stuttgart today. The match against world number four Olena Rybakina will start at 14:00 Kyiv time
Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) – the 27th racket of the world
Date of birth: 28/06/2002 (21 years old)
Place of birth: Kyiv, Ukraine
Height: 175 cm
Plays: with the right hand (two-handed backhand)
WTA titles: 1 (2023 – Austin)
Highest WTA ranking: 28 (29/01/2024)
Career Win/Loss (as of 04/21/2024): 199/114
Career prize money: $4,085,943
Olena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) – the 4th racket of the world
Date of birth: 17/06/1999 (24 years old)
Place of birth: Moscow, Russia
Height: 184 cm
Plays: with the right hand (two-handed backhand)
WTA titles: 7 (2024 – Brisbane, Abu Dhabi; 2023 – Indian Wells, Rome; 2022 – Wimbledon; 2020 – Hobart; 2019 – Bucharest)
Highest WTA ranking: 3 (12/06/2023)
Career Win/Loss (as of 04/20/2024): 315/136
Career prize money: $13,325,930
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H2H: 1-1
2023 | US Open | Hard | Olena Rybakina – 6:2, 6:1
2023 | Adelaide (WTA 500) | Hard | Marta Kostyuk – 6:7, 6:2, 6:3
Path in the tournament
Marta Kostyuk
R1: [WC] Laura Siegemund (Germany, #84) 6:3, 6:7(4), 6:4
R2: [5] Zheng Qinwen (China, #7) 6:2, 4:6, 7:5 – won 5 match points
QF: [3] Coco Gauff (USA, No. 3) 3:6, 6:4, 7:6(6)
SF: [6] Marketa Vondroushova (Czech Republic, #8) 7:6(2), 6:2
Olena Rybakina
R1: BYE
R2: Veronika Kudermetova (-, #19) 7:6(3), 1:6, ,6:4
QF: Jasmine Paolini (Italy, #14) 6:3, 5:7, 6:3
SF: [1] Iga Swiontek (Poland, #1) 6:3, 4:6, 6:3
History at the tournament
Marta Kostyuk – 4/1 | Kostyuk is playing in Stuttgart for the second time. In 2018, she qualified for the second round of the main draw.
Olena Rybakina – 2/2 | Rybakina is playing in Stuttgart for the third time and for the first time went beyond the second round.
Performances on the ground (as of 04/21/2024):
Marta Kostyuk – 67/31 (4/0 this year)
Olena Rybakina – 79/35 (3/0 this year)
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Performances in the 2024 season
Marta Kostyuk – 15/6
Grand Slam – 4/1 | AO – 1/4
WTA 1000 – 4/2 | Doha – R2, Indian Wells – 1/2
WTA 500 – 7/3 | Brisbane – R2, Adelaide – 1/4, San Diego – Final
Olena Rybakina – 22/4
Grand Slam – 1/1 | AO – R2
WTA 1000 – 11/2 | Doha – Final, Dubai – 1/4 (withdrawn before the match), Miami – Final
WTA 500 – 10/1 | Brisbane – TITLE, Adelaide – 1/4, Abu Dhabi – TITLE
Last 5 matches:
Marta Kostyuk – V, V, V, V, P
Olena Rybakina – V, V, V, P, V
National factor:
Marta Kostyuk – 1/1 | Kostyuk will play her third match against the representative of Kazakhstan and the third time against Olena Rybakina.
Olena Rybakina – 12/6 | Rybakina will play for the first time against a tennis player from Ukraine, after last year’s victory over Marta Kostyuk at the US Open.
Marta Kostyuk – will play her 164th match in the main draw at WTA tour tournaments. She has 87 victories (53%).
Olena Rybakina – will play her 287th match in the main draw at WTA tour tournaments. She has 200 wins (70%).
Marta Kostyuk – will play her 25th match against a top-10 opponent and fight for her eighth victory. This season, she defeated Jessica Pegula (#5) at the San Diego tournament, as well as Zheng Qinwen (#7), Coco Gauff (#3) and Marketa Vondroushova (#8) in previous matches in Stuttgart.
Marta Kostyuk – will hold the 3rd final at WTA tournaments and reached this stage for the first time on clay. The Ukrainian will fight for her second title – last year she became the champion at the WTA 250 competition in Austin.
Olena Rybakina – reached the WTA final for the 18th time (4th time on clay) and will fight for her 8th title (3rd on clay).
The winner of this match will receive $123,480 in prize money and 500 rating points. Tennis player who loses – $76,225 prize money and 325 rating points
Bookmaker quotes:
The Vbet company considers Olena Rybakina the favorite of the match and offers a coefficient of 1.39 for her victory. Marta Kostyuk’s success in this match is estimated by the coefficient – 3.32.
Similar coefficients are offered by Favbet bookmakers – the victory of Marta Kostyuk is 3.40, and the victory of Elena Rybakina is estimated with a coefficient of 1.35.
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