Marta Kostyuk says she is trying to stay loose even when the stakes rise. The Ukrainian player said, "If I had lost today, it wouldn’t matter that much in a year, or even in a few weeks," a line that captures the mindset behind the title attached to her latest run.
The quote comes as Kostyuk is the subject of a story about holding on to a carefree attitude for success, though the available text here does not include the full report. It also sits alongside references to a sympathy message for Marketa Vondrousova in an ITIA doping case and to WTA tennis returning to Athens for the first time in over 35 years with Maria Sakkari set to lead the homecoming, but no further details were provided in the source material.
That leaves the sharper reading of the moment tied to Kostyuk herself: she is framing one result as temporary and refusing to let one match define her. For a player in the kind of pressure that follows deep runs and late-round matches, the message is plain enough. She is not pretending losses do not sting. She is saying they do not get to own the calendar.
The source material available here is thin, but it still points to the next thing readers need to know: Kostyuk’s approach is being judged in real time against the results that follow, including a Rouen quarterfinal against Ann Li after three-set wins, with the matchup also noted in coverage that says Ann Li meets Marta Kostyuk in the Rouen quarterfinal after three-set wins. What happens on court will tell the rest of the story far better than the quote alone ever could.