Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek, number one in the world ranking, qualified this Thursday for the semifinals of the Fort Worth WTA Finals (USA) while Russian Daria Kasátkina defeated Coco Gauff and left the American with no choice.
Swiatek, 21 years old and great dominator of women’s tennis in 2022, beat Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 23 minutes and thus added his second victory in two games (2-0).
The Pole has yet to drop a set at the WTA Finals and has conceded just ten games in total in the two matches she has played so far.
Swiatek has to counter Garcia’s fearlessnesswho put a lot of pressure on the number one by repeatedly going up to the net.
The Frenchwoman defeated Swiatek in July in the quarterfinals of the Warsaw Tournament, a very difficult defeat for the Pole because it was in her home country, but this Thursday she could not win the number one.
However, Garcia will have a chance on Saturday to win a ticket to the semifinals in a heads-up duel against Kasátkinawho on Thursday added his first win of the tournament by defeating Gauff 7-6(6) and 6-3 in one hour and 40 minutes.
Both Garcia and Kasátkina are now winners and a loss (1-1).
instead, it was the second straight loss at the WTA Finals for Gauff (0-2), leaving the young American with no more mathematical possibilities. to enter the crosses for the title.
The American representatives did not have much luck in this WTA Finals played in their country.
Gauff, who came in as the fourth favorite at the final WTA event of the year, was the first tennis player to be eliminated while Jessica Pegula, third seed, is also 0-2 in the other group and needs carom on Friday to be in semifinals.
Pegula will face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (1-1) while in another match Tunisian Ons Jabeur (1-1) and Greek Maria Sakkari (2-0), who are classified for the qualifying rounds for the title, will face each other.
Source: La Verdad
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