Marta Kostyuk is a worried woman, and her victory in the first round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 is too anecdotal to dispel her worries.

The war in Ukraine occupies his mind.

She thinks of her family in Ukraine, those nights when "you go to bed at night and you don't know if the next day..." She evokes those difficult first days and that curious human adaptability, surely partly because she has thick skin.

“The nervous system manages to adapt, it gets used to the situation.

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But Marta Kostyuk is also angry.

Against Vladimir Putin, “this guy” who, according to her, made a “big mistake” in thinking that he could rally the Ukrainian people to his cause and easily defeat his army.

“Look at our army, it's amazing what they are doing.

Angry, too, against the Russian players on the circuit, from whom she expected a little more.

A text message and a "how are you?"

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“It's very disappointing that no Russian player has come to me to tell me that they are sorry to see what their country is inflicting on mine.

There are more Ukrainian civilians who died than soldiers, and among them children… it's terrible,” lamented the 19-year-old player.

“A player texted me.

Another came to chat with me, but no one gave me support or asked how I was doing.

It's shocking," she insisted.

“It's not about politics, it's about human beings.

It hurts me, it hurts me when I get here on the site, when I see these players, when I hear them say that their main problem is not being able to transfer their money or that kind of thing, this is unacceptable,” she added.

“I don't know why the Russians are acting like this.

What is happening is no secret, we know what is happening, who is attacking the other, who is bombarding the other.

It's easy to understand and you can't stay neutral,” Kostyuk said.

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