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Ukrainian Kostiuk won the first professional tennis tournament

Promising Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk won the clay tournament in Dunakeszi (Hungary) with the prize Fund of 25 thousand dollars.

The young inhabitant of Kiev for the first time has loudly declared itself after winning the Junior Australian Open and a few months after the triumph in Melbourne, he came in and first success at the professional level.

In Dunakeszi Kostyuk several times has improved personal record in ITF tournaments until I got to the final. On the way to a decisive match of a 14-year-old tennis player consistently beat Kimberley Zimmermann (6:2, 6:3), Anna-Carolina Smidova (7:5, 7:6), Ipek Soylu (6:4, 6:4) and Alexander Cadenza (6:3, 6:3).

For the title, he competed with American Bernardo peroy, beaten in the semi-finals of the former Ukrainian Anastasia Zaritsky. Mar was able to overcome the excitement and confidently defeated rival (6:4, 6:3).

Thanks to the victory in the Hungarian soil Martha Kostiuk will soon enter the top 500 of the WTA rankings and will be one of the best tennis players in the age category up to 18 years.

Kostyuk became the youngest Ukrainian tennis player has won a professional tournament. Before this record was held by Olga Savchuk, who in 2003 won his first tournament at the age of 15 years and 4 months.

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