Marta Kostyuk believes Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka have been given a rotten schedule for their match together at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n
Osaka and Sabalenka have been given a rare night session for their fourth round match at Roland Garros, the first time a women\u2019s match at this position has been given that spot since 2023.<\/p>\n
The multi-time Grand Slam champions have been rewarded for their star power with a spot on Philippe-Chatrier, with play set to start after 8pm French time.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Laura Robson on TNT Sports and HBO Max, Kostyuk was asked to give her opinion on the landmark moment for women\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff reveals what made \u2018the difference\u2019 in French Open upset loss to Anastasia Potapova<\/a><\/p>\n How Coco Gauff\u2019s shock French Open exit affects WTA Rankings as American set for drop<\/a><\/p>\n Asked if she would like to play a night session like Osaka<\/a> and Sabalenka<\/a>, the Ukrainian curtley responded: \u201cNever. I think this is the worst thing for athletes bodies to play night sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n Kostyuk<\/a> is very happy with her current position at Roland Garros<\/a>, which has been demonstrated with her incredible performances so far at the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very happy we play early,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019ve been asking to play first since the beginning of the tournament. I love to play early. I would keep it for the boys. They can have it!\u201d<\/p>\n Kostyuk defeated Iga Swiatek at Roland Garros<\/a> to reach the quarter-finals of the French Grand Slam for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian star dispatched the World No. 3 7-5, 6-1 to continue her near-spotless run at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n She has dropped just one set at the Grand Slam so far, against Katie Volynets, in her first round matches, which has continued her impeccable run on clay in 2026.<\/p>\n Kostyuk won Open de Rouen and the Madrid Open<\/a> back-to-back earlier in the clay court swing, before withdrawing from the Italian Open<\/a> with an injury.<\/p>\n That means the World No. 13 is yet to taste a defeat on the surface so far this season, with her victory against Swiatek marking her 16th win in a row.<\/p>\n She is the second player to confirm her place in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros, after Sorana Cirstea, who beat Xinyu Wang in straight sets.<\/p>\n Kostyuk will await the winner of Belinda Bencic<\/a> and Elina Svitolina<\/a>, both of whom she shares worrying head-to-head records against.<\/p>\n She has lost three straight matches against Bencic without picking up a single victory, although they have not played since the 2023 season.<\/p>\n As for Svitolina, Kostyuk has played just two matches against her compatriot. She lost at the 2018 Australian Open<\/a>, but evened up the head-to-head by knocking Svitolina out of the Canadian Open in 2024.<\/p>\n The post Marta Kostyuk says Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka have been put in the \u2018worst\u2019 situation at Roland Garros<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marta Kostyuk believes Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka have been given a rotten schedule for their match together at Roland Garros. Osaka and Sabalenka have been given a rare night session for their fourth round match at Roland Garros, the first time a women\u2019s match at this position has been given that spot since 2023. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}