15-year-old Marta Kostyuk finished the fight on the ground tournament of the WTA Premier series in Stuttgart in the second round of the competition.

Ukrainka in a tense struggle lost the seventh of the world's racquet from France Caroline Garcia.

Kostyuk failed the first set, showed brilliant tennis in the second game, and in the final set in the end made a mistake, which costed an exit to the quarterfinals of the tournament -1: 6, 6: 3, 5: 7.

The game lasted 1 hour 43 minutes.

Garcia's opponent in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Stuttgart may become Elina Svitolina, who in the second round will meet with the Czech Marketa Vondrushova.

It should be noted that for Kostyuk it was the debut at the Premier level tournaments and she became the youngest participant of this tournament since 1995.