The geopolitical situation in the east of Europe has been fraught with tension for over two months now. Several Ukrainian players have opened up about the difficult situation prevalent in their country and how that has affected their families. Marta Kostyuk, the 19-year-old rising star from Ukraine recently opened up about not being able to concentrate on her game given how her home country is in tatters and how several compatriots have been personally affected by it.

“Right now is something indescribable, I would say, because there is a parent of one tennis player that died,” Kostyuk said in an interview with CNN Sport. “There is one tennis player’s house that is completely destroyed,” she added.

Marta Kostyuk opens up about dealing with on-going conflict

“It’s been two months and you know, it’s up and down, it changes. I’m trying to guide myself a little bit, just trying to see where I’m at… I started a couple of weeks ago, which helps me enormously. But you know, sometimes it goes to a certain extent that it’s scary, the thoughts that come to you,” the Ukrainian star further revealed.

Kostyuk also opened up about how it has been extremely difficult for her to deal with the current situation but she is trying harder and harder to focus. Kostyuk also talked about how she is trying her level best to not feel like a victim, which was something that she did in the initial days of the crisis.

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