Marta Kostiuk made a surprise of the day at WTA Adelaide, the athlete from Ukraine beat Wimbledon champion Olena Rybakina in the 1/8 finals.

Olena RybakinaPhoto: Brenton Edwards / AFP / Profimedia

Olena Rybakina, was eliminated in the 1/8 finals by Marta Kostyuk

69th in the world ranking, Kostyuk lost the first set (one without breaks) in a big fight on a tie-break, the score 7-5. In this case, Olena, who is on the 21st place in the WTA ranking, decided on superior experience.

But two sets followed, in which Marta became more aggressive, took control of many plays from the main line, forced her opponent to make more mistakes, and the scoreboard became her friend.

Kostyuk won the second set 6-2, and the deciding match came back to him 6-3. The match lasted two hours and 23 minutes and was exhausting.

In the quarters, Kostyuk will meet the winner of the Sorana Kirstea – Ons Zhaber match.

They also played in the round of 16 on Wednesday at the WTA tournament in Adelaide

Marketa Vondrousova – Kaya Kanepi 6-0, 6-4

Aryna Sabalenko – Lyudmila Samsonova 7-6(8), 7-6(3)

We will remind that there are two representatives of Romania in the 1/8 finals of the competition: Sorana Kirstya will meet Ons Jaber (2nd WTA and the main favorite of the competition), and Iryna Begu will face Yelena Ostapenko (seventh favorite).

WTA Adelaide is part of the WTA 500 category, it is contested from January 1 to 8 on hard, has a total prize pool of $826,837, and the title champion is Karolina Pliskova (in 2020).