By Jackson Posey | Sports Writer
Liubov Kostenko was born to be a star.
The daughter of a tennis coach, five-year-old Kostenko quickly became a fixture at tennis courts around her home country of Ukraine, often tagging along to watch her mother train local players. Inevitably, she picked up a racket of her own – and never set it back down.
“Once, she took me with her [to work], and it was tennis courts [with] so many people,” said Kostenko, now a senior at Baylor. “I was very extrovert[ed], I’d say, so it was very fun.