The player received a Porsche car as a prize from the tournament, but the irony is that Rybakina herself admitted before the match that she does not have a driver’s license.
She said that obtaining this luxury car might encourage her to learn to drive and obtain a licence.
The 2022 Wimbledon champion needed an hour and 9 minutes to achieve her second victory out of three matches between her and the 21-year-old Ukrainian, who eliminated three players from the world’s top ten club on her way to the final.
Rybakina won two games on her opponent's serve in the first set, then the 24-year-old repeated the same thing in the second, to win her third title in 2024 out of 5 final matches, and the eighth in her career out of 19 final matches.
The Kazakhstan player said after the match: “I would like to congratulate Marta on this wonderful tournament. You are playing very well and I hope you will play in more final matches.”
The Ukrainian was competing in the third final in her young career, after the beginning of 2023 when she won her first and only title in Austin, and the second this year in San Diego when she lost to Britain’s Katie Poulter.
Kostyuk's arrival to the final was not surprising, as in her last participation, she reached the semi-finals of the 1,000-point tournament in Indian Wells, where her journey ended at the hands of Polish Iga Szwijtek, ranked first in the world, who was eliminated in Stuttgart in the round of four by Rybakina.
Kostyuk congratulated “Elena and her team. She is going through a wonderful period in the last two seasons and I am always happy to play against you.”
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