Iga Swiatek keep moving steadily forward Bad Homburg 250 tournament. Number 1 in the world was placed by first time in his career at semifinals of a grass tournament and among those who will fight for the trophy this weekend. He achieved it after defeating 6-3 and 6-2 in russian Anna Blinkova in the quarterfinals.
It’s true that there are no other highly ranked players in the tournament (Blinkova is, in fact, 39th in the world), but that’s also Swiatek is comfortable this week of acceptance to the grass track. With good lateral mobility on the baseline, aggressive towards others and overcoming difficult situations that arose, he again became aggressive to comfortably dominate the game and take the victory.
Blinkova had a 0-30 start in her favor, but Swiatek was able to neutralize it. In the fourth game of the partial, the Russian took the first serve to save a compromised deuce situation. However, in the sixth game, his mistakes along with Iga’s good shots from down the court, with a good running forehand and a good backhand return, allowing the Pole to make it 4-2 on the scoreboard. Swiatek salvaged a compromised seventh game and closed out the first set with no problems 6-3.
Blinkova held on at the start of the second, comfortable on her serve in the early stages against a Swiatek who also gave her no chance. It was in the fifth game when the Russian began to doubt and number 1 joined its lips to dominate the game and head into the hunt for the match. Both forehand and backhand are completely loose, added fourteen points in a row between 2-2 and 5-2 and that 30-0 to properly close out his third consecutive victory on the German grass.
In this way, Swiatek continues a steady pace in the tournament and makes it to the semifinals of a grass tournament for the first time. It will be up to them this Friday in Italian Lucia Bronzetti, defeating French of Russian origin Varvara Gracheva in the quarterfinals 6-4 and 6-3. This will be the first duel on the circuit between the player from Warsaw and an Italian ranked sixty-fifth in the world ranking.
Source: La Verdad
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