After losing an exhibition match to fellow Ukrainian Elina Svitolina last December in India, Marta Kostyuk had had enough. She told her coach, Sandra Zaniewska, that if she didn’t kick on the following year, Kostyuk would consider quitting tennis. “I kind of hit rock bottom,” Kostyuk, who was ranked No. 26 at the time, said in a video interview from her Monaco home earlier this month. “I told her that it feels like I’m literally shedding my skin. Like it’s coming off, and I have to rip it, and i
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