Marta Kostyuk pulled off an iconic Novak Djokovic joke following her Stuttgart quarterfinal win as the Ukrainian tennis player described her recent run of three consecutive semifinals as “not too bad.”
If you remember well, record 10-time Australian Open champion Djokovic delivered a viral moment during one of his press conferences at Melbourne Park a few years ago. Starting his question for Djokovic, Italian reporter Ubaldo Scanagatta was telling the Serb: “Novak, congratulations, seven Australian Opens, 15 Slams…” when the world No. 1 interjected and said with an Italian accent: “Not too bad.”
Kostyuk, who was a finalist in San Diego in late February and also a semifinalist in Miami last month, made her third consecutive semifinal in Stuttgart after edging out Gauff 3-6 6-4 7-6 (6).
When asked about her run of three consecutive semifinals, Kostyuk funnily replied: “Okay, not too bad (smiling).”
Kostyuk gets serious about making three consecutive semifinals
For 21-year-old Kostyuk, this is some of the best tennis she played in her career. On Friday, Kostyuk clinched a very notable win over 2023 US Open champion Gauff and it took her eight match points and nearly three hours of play.
