Marta Kostyuk, alongside Romanian player Elena Ruse, suffered a heavy defeat in the doubles category at the US Open. They competed against the duo of neutral Russian Veronika Kudermetova and Belgian Elise Mertens, finishing with a score of 6:4, 6:1. The match lasted 1 hour and 21 minutes, and unfortunately, our players committed 6 double faults while their opponents made just one.
Neither pair managed to serve an ace, but the opponents showed better conversion on break points: 4 out of 5 for Kudermetova and Mertens versus 1 out of 5 for Kostyuk and Ruse.

US Open – Grand Slam
New York, USA, hard
Prize Money: $35,632,800
Third round of doubles, September 2

Veronika Kudermetova (-)/Elise Mertens (Belgium) – Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine)/Elena Gabriela Ruse (Romania) 6:4, 6:1

It is worth noting that Marta Kostyuk was the sole representative of Ukraine at the US Open, but she also lost in the singles event to Czech player Karolina Muchova. This was her best performance at the US Open, reaching the fourth round after defeating Katie Boulter (48, UK), Zeynep Sonmez (81, Turkey), and Diane Parry (107, France).