World’s 59th in singles and 79th in doubles Ukrainian professional Marta Kostyuk protested him in the ongoing last 16 games 2022 Italian Open. Marta, Romania Elena Gabriela Ruse and the couple was against the Russians Veronika Kudermetova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Kostyuk has become one of the harshest critics of the tennis authorities for allowing Russian and Belarusian players to continue playing on the Tour despite the two countries responsible for the war that has been going on for more than two months in Ukraine. Marta has repeatedly asked for the players of the two countries to be banned, but as only the Russian and Belarus tennis federations are currently suspended, no other tennis institution apart from LTA and Wimbledon has honored the requests of the Ukrainian players. .
At the Italian Open, Marta and Elena lost the opening set 6-1 to the Russians in just 26 minutes, and the match seemed to have ended early. It was reported that during the mandatory break between sets for the change, Marta went to the dressing room and left without returning to the field.
His decision to ‘pass’ was not communicated to the 1st referee along with the Russian couple. Veronica and Anastasia and the spectators in the stands were left alone with the referee, who then declared the Russians the winner as Marta did not return to the field in the stipulated time.
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Marta Kostyuk did not comment after the match
While a player can take a half-time break at any point in the match, the way the Ukrainian did so when he was just leaving the pitch was surprising. The other issue of concern is why he quit after playing the first set. If there was a march to protest the Russian players, Martha could have refused to play initially. While many people were waiting for the reason for leaving, the Ukrainian player became unable to comment after the match.
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