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AUSTIN, Texas — Marta Kostyuk has won her first career WTA title at age 20 by beating Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 7-5 in the ATX Open final. Kostyuk dedicated the victory on Sunday to her home country of Ukraine. The eighth-seeded Kostyuk and the unseeded Gracheva, a 22-year-old Russian, were both participating in a tour-level title match for the first time. They did not meet at the net for the traditional post-match handshake. Kostyuk has said she will not do so after facing any opponents from Russia, which began its invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, or Belarus, which helped launch the attack.
