Did you know that...
... Marketa Vondrousova leads the head-to-heads with Marta Kostyuk 1-0? The Czech won in 6-2, 6-1 in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round in 2023.
...Marketa Vondrousova has won twice as much prize money in her career than Marta Kostyuk? Vondrousova who is exactly three years older than her opponent from Ukraine has earned 9,778,887 dollars. Kostyuk has taken home 4,085,943 dollars.
...Marta Kostyuk has competed once before at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix? After qualifying in 2018, she then lost in the last 16.
...Marta Kostyuk has beaten a Top 10 players six times in her career? Three such successes have come this year when she beat the American Jessica Pegula in San Diego, and now China’s Qinwen Zheng and Coco Gauff from USA here in Stuttgart.
...Marketa Vondrousova has reached the Stuttgart semifinals for the first time in four attempts? Last 16 appearances in 2018 and 2021 were her best performances up until now.
...Marta Kostyuk has reached the semifinals of a WTA tournament for the third time in succession. The world No. 27 also reached the penultimate round in San Diego and Indian Wells.
...Marketa Vondrousova has won 12 times against a Top 10 player? Yesterday’s win against Aryna Sabalenka was her first such success since Wimbledon in 2023. On the way to winning the title there, she beat the American Jessica Pegula.
...Marta Kostyuk has never gone further than the semifinals of a WTA clay court tournament? Her best performance to date on the red clay was when she reached, as she has done in Stuttgart, the last four in Istanbul in 2021.
...Marketa Vondrousova has never won a WTA tournament on her favourite surface? She did however reach the final of the 2019 French Open.
...Marta Kostyuk will, if she wins today, become the first Ukrainian to reach the final at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix? Elina Svitolina lost in the 2021 semifinals.
...Marketa Vondrousova was the world No. 82 in April 2023? She is now the No. 8.
...Marta Kostyuk has already played 12 three-setters this season? Her opponent today, Marketa Vondrousova, has gone the distance on six occasions.
