Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk talked about the photo of shorts her team took after winning the WTA 1000 final in Madrid.
"We have a laundry room at tournaments, and sometimes things get mixed up. We might get someone else's socks or something else—stuff like that happens all the time. Last year, we got these shorts, and they had 'lucky shorts' written on them. Sandra (Zanevska - ed.) said, 'I'm not giving them to anyone,' and kept them.
When I won matches last year, she brought them back every time. It became our lucky charm. We don't have many superstitions, and it all happened by chance." This year, she hadn't even planned to take them with her, but before her trip to Madrid, she stopped by her father's to pick them up and bring them here.
"We then joked that if I win the title, we should definitely take a photo with these shorts. I even told my husband to wear them over his trousers for the photo, but he didn't, but that's okay," Kostyuk said.
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