Did you know that...
...Coco Gauff is 2-0 up in the head-to-heads with Marta Kostyuk? The last meeting was this year in the Australian Open quarterfinals when Gauff won 7-6(6), 6-7(3), 6-2. The match took over three hours.
...Marta Kostyuk has competed once before at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix? After qualifying in 2018, she then lost in the last 16.
...Coco Gauff has won almost three times as much prize money in her career as Marta Kostyuk? Gauff, who is almost two years younger than Kostyuk, has to date won 13,466,222 dollars whilst Kostyuk has earned 4,085,943 dollars.
…Coco Gauff is the youngest American in the quarterfinals since Serena Williams in 1998?
...Marta Kostyuk has beaten a Top 10 players five times in her career? Two such successes have come this year when she beat the American Jessica Pegula, and now China’s Qinwen Zheng China here in Stuttgart.
...Coco Gauff has improved on her previous year’s performance each time she has played in Stuttgart? She exited in the first round in 2022, in the round of the last 16 in 2023 and now she is in the quarterfinals.
...Marta Kostyuk has won four of her five duels against Americans this year? The only defeat came at the hands of Gauff in the Melbourne quarterfinals.
...Coco Gauff has won five of her six matches against Ukrainians?
...Marta Kostyuk has only made it to the semifinals of a WTA clay court tournament on one occasion? She reached the last four in Istanbul in 2021.
...Coco Gauff has won one of her seven WTA titles on clay? In 2021, she won in Parma, Italy.. She has though reached the 2022 French Open final.
...Marta Kostyuk will, if she wins today, become the second Ukrainian to reach the semifinal at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix? The first was Elina Svitolina in 2021.
...Coco Gauff would, should she triumph on Sunday, be the first America to win the clay-court tournament in the Porsche Arena?
...Marta Kostyuk and Coco Gauff have both already played 11 three setters this season?
...Coco Gauff’s biggest role models are the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus?
