Andreeva after a quick win against Kostyuk in the Paris final

At the end of the match, Kostyuk, as expected, refrained from shaking hands with Andreyeva at the net. With this, Ukrainian tennis professionals still want to send a signal of protest against the Russian war of aggression in their homeland.

Kostyuk shows nerves

Andrejewa, seeded number eight, is the former Spanish top player Conchita Martinez trained, showed another strong performance and is the favorite in the final on Saturday. The second semi-final will then take place on the Court Philippe Chatrier between the Polish qualifiers Maja Chwalinska and the Russian woman Diana Schnaider instead of.

In contrast to Andreeva, Kostyuk showed nerves in her first Grand Slam semi-final. The 23-year-old lost a match for the first time after 16 wins on the tour because she made a total of 34 unforced errors. Apparently she also had problems with the wind before the roof was closed. The audience was mostly on the side of the Ukrainian, but even this support didn’t help much.

After her opening match in Paris, Kostjuk made it public that a rocket had destroyed a building a hundred meters from her parents’ house. At the press conference she also showed a picture on her cell phone that was supposed to show the destruction. Kostyuk said she tries whenever possible to “remind people of the horrors of people’s everyday lives” in their homeland.