1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to the AO Show and another 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: episode of the sit Down. I'm Vic Christi of Australian 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: Tennis Magazine and it's great to be joined by my 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: colleague Mattrolope of oz open dot Com. Great to be 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: chatting tennis with you. 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: Again, Matt. 7 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,799 Speaker 3: It's good to be back Viv for the second edition 8 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 3: of the sit Down. If listeners didn't hear, last week, 9 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 3: we debuted this new podcast stream, which features interviews and 10 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 3: in depth chats with people in the tennis industry. We 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 3: featured an interview that Nick mccavil did with Yanick Sinner 12 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 3: during his title run at the Australian Open, which is 13 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 3: a really good listen. I'd encourage everyone to go back 14 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 3: and check that out. And this week we're back with 15 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 3: another interesting guest. Who have we got on this week? 16 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: Today we actually talked to Marta Kostyuk. So Marta caught 17 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: up with Andrea Petkovich in January at a great time 18 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: in her. 19 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 3: Career, Absolutely a great time because she's had an incredible 20 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 3: start to twenty twenty four and after this chat she's 21 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 3: gone on to continue that form. Got her first top 22 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: five win in San Diego. She went on to make 23 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: the semi finals of Indian Wells. She's on the brink 24 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 3: of the top twenty five. It's all kind of coming 25 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 3: together for her. And what I loved about this chat 26 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 3: is that she kind of goes into the weeds of 27 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 3: what have been the ingredients behind her rise and how 28 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: she's gotten to this point and how she's trending in 29 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 3: the right direction. 30 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, everything is trending out for Marta, really, and let's 31 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: hear what she has to say. 32 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 2: Well, don Marta into the quarterfinals for the first time, 33 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: and what a performance it was. I saw a lot 34 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 2: of variety. You want, twenty one out of twenty nine 35 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: points at the net? Yes, not that at all. Are 36 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: those the things you worked on in the off season? 37 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 2: What are the things you implemented to get to your 38 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: quarterfinals for the first time at a Grand Slam tournament. 39 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 4: I don't think there is anything specific that we worked on, 40 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 4: you know, like, Okay, let's work on this specific shot. 41 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 4: But I think it was just more the you know, 42 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 4: I used to have like very chaotic game. You know, 43 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 4: I could do a lot of things, but they were 44 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 4: never really in the proper order. So I think we've 45 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 4: been working more more like having how do I say, it's. 46 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: More structure, Yeah, more. 47 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 4: Structure, yeah in my game, So yeah, it's you know, 48 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 4: it makes me feel more I forgot English. Sorry, it 49 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 4: makes a. 50 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: Big day for the first time. 51 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 4: It makes me feel more like confident on the court, 52 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 4: you know, like on important points. I know that I 53 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: will not just decide something that I've never done in 54 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 4: my life. So yeah, I think this is the main work. Yeah. 55 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 2: Nice, And you are a very expressive player. I love that. 56 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 2: I don't know, I have to know the score. I 57 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: take a look at you, and I know whether it's 58 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: going well or whether it's not going well. How do 59 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 2: you channel these emotions that you have to play your 60 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 2: best tennis? 61 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 4: Well, I don't like to be very expressive, you know, 62 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 4: but there are just you know, sometimes I'm better, but 63 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 4: sometimes it's really I wish it would be better. I 64 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 4: don't know. I think, like naturally, I'm very emotional person 65 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 4: and very open and open minded, and it's not always easy, 66 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 4: you know, to be calm and how do they say it, 67 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 4: like very stable and like you also, yeah, I just 68 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 4: I try to accept myself, you know, because I don't 69 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 4: think at certain point it just doesn't make sense to 70 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 4: fight yourself, you know, because there are just emotions that 71 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 4: are going through my head or through me that I 72 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 4: just cannot not express, cannot hide. And yeah, I think 73 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 4: I've been spending a lot of energy at times fighting 74 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 4: myself being the way I'm not. And yeah, of course 75 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 4: I still have to always look for this balance that 76 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 4: is not too much. That it doesn't you know, change 77 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 4: my game, that it doesn't. 78 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 2: How do I say it. 79 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 3: That it? 80 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, that it doesn't you know, make me play worse 81 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 4: in a way. So, but you know we're getting there slowly. 82 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to the quarterfinals. Now I'm not sure, 83 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: but maybe you got married? Yeah I did? Then, yes, 84 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 2: there it is, show it off and then you reached 85 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: the quarterfinals. Should you have gotten married before that? No, No, 86 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: it does. 87 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 4: Honestly. It's like I don't feel like it's too early, 88 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 4: but you know, I'm very young, and at times I'm like, whoa, 89 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 4: I'm only twenty one. If if we were married for 90 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 4: ten years, I will be only thirty one, you know. 91 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 2: So it's like. 92 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 4: It was a very good decision. You know, I'm very happy, 93 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 4: but you know, I don't think I would want to 94 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 4: do it efore. Yeah, even earlier. 95 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I hope if anybody has time to check 96 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: on Instagram, there are beautiful photos of you to congratulations. 97 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: Another thing I came across your Instagram is I saw 98 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 2: you on a surfboard and you had an amazing comment. 99 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 2: You said, at least she died doing what she loves. 100 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 2: Did you get, of course Australia's beautiful beaches. Did you 101 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: have time to do some surfing here in Australia or 102 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 2: were you too busy winning. 103 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 4: I didn't do any surfing in Australia and I don't 104 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 4: think I will because I'm very scared of the oceans 105 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: of the water. Yeah. So when we were in surfing 106 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 4: in La, there were sting rays. So my husband saw 107 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,799 Speaker 4: a sting ray and we flew off like from the water. 108 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 4: But then we came back because we were like, oh, 109 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 4: we will die, but at least we will die doing 110 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 4: what we love. And then I tried surfing in Maldives. 111 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 4: We were we had our honeymoon there and I almost died, 112 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 4: but really I almost died. Yeah, I the waves were 113 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 4: bigger than we thought. They were probably like five times 114 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 4: bigger than in La, and we just, you know, we 115 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 4: just because it was our second time we were too 116 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 4: sure of ourselves, you know. And in Maldives there are rocks, 117 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 4: so where the wave breaks in the rocks and I 118 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 4: couldn't get out of it. So I was hit by 119 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 4: a wave twice, like I was right in this curve 120 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 4: and yeah, I was out of breath. So I almost died. 121 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 4: So then the next day we went surfing again, of course, 122 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 4: and I tried again and I managed to get up. 123 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 4: But it's very I think it's it's very dangerous. So 124 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 4: you have to pick like times and days where when 125 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 4: you can do it. But yeah, don't think in Australia. 126 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 4: Is a lot of sharks here, and yeah, I'm traumatized 127 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 4: from Maldives already. 128 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 2: So basically what you're saying, if you want to be 129 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 2: as successful as Marta Costuok reached the quarter finals, you 130 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: have to get married and then almost die. Yeah. Perfect, 131 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 2: we'll take that. Yes, thank you very much, thank you. 132 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 3: Thanks viv Mana Costjuoc has achieved way more in her 133 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 3: life at age twenty one. I'm thirty seven, and I 134 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 3: it piles into insignificant. So I just listened to her talk. 135 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 3: She's married, she's achieving all this great stuff, she's barely 136 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 3: out of university age in Australia. I just think her 137 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 3: age is such a staggering element about her rise. It 138 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 3: feels like she's been around for such a long time. 139 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 3: And then yeah, when she says that, you're kind of like, oh, wow, 140 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: you're just in your formative years. 141 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, I'm not thirty seven. I wish 142 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: I was thirty seven. I'm a little bit older than that. 143 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: I wish i'd achieved half of what Marta has achieved. 144 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean she was only what fourteen when she won 145 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: the Australian Open Girls title in twenty seventeen. So I 146 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: think that's partly why we forget that she's still so young, 147 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: because she did so much so early in her career. 148 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: Remember that year or two when she used to win 149 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 3: things and she would backflip because she was doing gymnastics 150 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 3: or acrobatics. What if she was doing she'd celebrate like 151 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 3: if titles and junior titles with a backflip, and you 152 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 3: know it'd be nicely. She brought that back. 153 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: She's so much fun on court, isn't she. I mean 154 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: I loved listening to her say that she used to 155 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: have a very chaotic game, and you know she's trying 156 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: to channel her emotions in a really positive way. And 157 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: I think she's doing all of those things, but I 158 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: also think those are are what makes her so fun. 159 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 3: It struck me when she described her game as chaotic. 160 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 3: What a great word to you use in not your 161 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 3: native language, but also to me the layman watching her 162 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 3: play her game didn't look chaotic like I mean, she 163 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: was so talented. She had all the shots. I guess 164 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 3: maybe at that high level though, where you're discerning and 165 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 3: you know you need to play with patterns and the 166 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: right kind of tactics and things like that, her version 167 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 3: before she was doing that was chaotic. But she had 168 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 3: all of the ingredients. I guess she just can't kind 169 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 3: of put them in the right order. And that's been 170 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 3: happening a lot under her coach, Sandro Zanievska. 171 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and she's one of the few players on 172 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: tour to have a women's coach, and she's talked about 173 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: how that really works for her, Like she talks about 174 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: how she communicates, she understands that the way they communicate together, 175 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: and yeah, it seems to be just a really great 176 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: package for her. 177 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 3: I also loved hearing her being interviewed by Andrea Pekovic. 178 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 3: She's got a great energy. What an addition to our team. 179 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 3: She was into the world feed of the Australian Open 180 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 3: as she was doing on court interviews, and she was 181 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 3: in the commentary booth and I really enjoyed her insights. 182 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 3: It must be really cool for a tennis player to 183 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 3: get interviewed by another pro that understands them. I think 184 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: she helped bring out a lot in costure in that chat. 185 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: I think she really brought out the fun in her 186 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: I loved Andrea's really cheeky question about marriage and she 187 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: should should she have got married earlier? 188 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 3: I thought that was so much fun and showed up. 189 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 3: I'm assuming that was a reference to The Ring. 190 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And yeah I hope that everyone did 191 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 1: check out the Instagram photos because of her wedding because 192 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: they are stunning and she you know, she had her 193 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: dress designed by Wilson. 194 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 3: And a Cypress location. I think, yeah, my. 195 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: Gosh, what a few months that she's had. 196 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, unbelievable. 197 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with another episode of the 198 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: sit Down. In the meantime, John on the Team return 199 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: on Thursday with the AO Show Weekly. 200 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 3: You can find all the details for how to contact 201 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 3: us in the show notes below, and as always, please subscribe, 202 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 3: rate and review. See you next week to do it 203 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 3: all again.