Marta Kostyuk vs Anna Blinkova — 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3

Result

The 12th seed Marta Kostyuk recovered from a first-set tiebreak to beat Anna Blinkova 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3 on Court 18 in a scrappy two-and-a-half-hour battle. Neither woman held serve comfortably — Kostyuk alone converted seven of nineteen break points — but her 48 winners to Blinkova's 11 eventually overwhelmed a match littered with 89 combined unforced errors. Into the third round the hard way.

Marta Kostyuk

Anna Blinkova

5Aces0

11Double faults8

54%1st serve in58%

72%1st-serve points won57%

40%2nd-serve points won41%

114 mphFastest serve113 mph

7/19Break points won4/14

49Winners11

62Unforced errors30

16/23Net points won9/17

131Total points won113

2357 mDistance run2280 m

Stats: Official wimbledon.com match statistics (IBM) · as of 2026-07-09

Rows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.

At this Stage

Nothing about this was tidy except the outcome. Marta Kostyuk, the 12th seed and a 6-1 6-2 winner over Nadia Podoroska in her opener, lost a first-set tie-break to Anna Blinkova and ground her way back, 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3, through two and a half scrappy hours and 89 combined unforced errors. Blinkova, herself a three-set winner over Yuliia Starodubtseva in round one, managed just 11 winners to Kostyuk's 48 — a gap no amount of scrap could disguise. Kostyuk advances, the hard way, to a last-32 meeting with 23rd seed Emma Navarro, who likewise came through in three. Progress does not have to be pretty; it only has to be progress.

Emma Navarro✓

Paula Badosa

Jun 29–30

4-6 6-3 7-5

Oksana Selekhmeteva✓

Sinja Kraus

Jun 29–30

6-1 7-5

Yuliia Starodubtseva

Anna Blinkova✓

Jun 29–30

6-7(3) 6-4 6-1

Marta Kostyuk✓

Nadia Podoroska

Jun 29–30

6-1 6-2

Emma Navarro✓

Oksana Selekhmeteva

Jul 1–2

3-6 6-4 6-1

Marta Kostyuk✓

Anna Blinkova

Jul 1–2

6-7(5) 6-3 6-3

Marta Kostyuk✓

Emma Navarro

Jul 3–4

6-2 4-6 6-1

Round of 128

Emma Navarro✓

Paula Badosa

Jun 29–30

4-6 6-3 7-5

Oksana Selekhmeteva✓

Sinja Kraus

Jun 29–30

6-1 7-5

Yuliia Starodubtseva

Anna Blinkova✓

Jun 29–30

6-7(3) 6-4 6-1

Marta Kostyuk✓

Nadia Podoroska

Jun 29–30

6-1 6-2

Round of 64

Emma Navarro✓

Oksana Selekhmeteva

Jul 1–2

3-6 6-4 6-1

Marta Kostyuk✓

Anna Blinkova

Jul 1–2

6-7(5) 6-3 6-3

Round of 32

Marta Kostyuk✓

Emma Navarro

Jul 3–4

6-2 4-6 6-1

What we know now

Tale of the tape

Marta KostyukAnna Blinkova

24Age27

5′9″ (1.75 m)Height5′10″ (1.79 m)

—Weight—

Right-handed, two-handed backhandPlaysRight-handed, two-handed backhand

2016Turned pro2015

No. 13ATP rankingNo. 114

—2026 win–loss—

10–15Career on grass11–13

0Grand Slam titles0

Third round (2023, 2024)Best at WimbledonThird round (2023)

Sandra ZaniewskaCoachGerard Solves

Player vitals: ATP Tour player profiles and Wikipedia (career records) · as of 2026-07-09.

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