{"id":690579,"date":"2026-05-24T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:29:08","slug":"emotional-kostyuk-into-second-round-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690579\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Kostyuk into second round &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It extended the 23-year-old\u2019s unbeaten streak on clay to 12 matches following titles in Roeun and her maiden WTA 1000 trophy in Madrid earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Despite stumbling when serving for both sets, the Ukrainian maintained control throughout to set a second-round meeting with Katie Volynets or Clara Burel on the back of 20 winners, including 12 off the forehand.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards during her on-court interview, Kostyuk revealed it had been an emotional build-up to the match following news from her parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m incredibly proud of myself today,\u201d Kostyuk said after the handshake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was one of the most difficult matches of my career. This morning, 100 metres away from my parents&#8217; house [in Ukraine], a missile destroyed the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very difficult morning for me. I didn&#8217;t know how this match was going to turn around for me. I didn&#8217;t know how I would handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It extended the 23-year-old\u2019s unbeaten streak on clay to 12 matches following titles in Roeun and her maiden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-690579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}