Iga Swiatek know how to suffer this morning from Friday to Saturday to rest 6-3, 4-6 and 6-2 in american Danielle Collins and advance for the first time to Canadian WTA 1000 semifinals, which this year will be held in Montreal. In them you will see the faces with the Americans Jessica Pegulawho won for 6-2, 5-7 and 7-5 in a difficult fight against his countryman Coco Gauff.
swiatek, after a difficult day on Thursday in which she had to foreclose her access to the quarterfinals against Karolina Muchova in a repeat of the Roland Garros final in two shifts due to rain, thus she will play in the penultimate round of one of the two tournaments of WTA 100 played in her career where she has not reached this stay. For now, his ceiling in Canada, as in Cincinnati (he did not play in Beijing or Guadalajara, or in a Wuhan that is not included in the calendar this year), is the round of 16 in 2019 and 2022.
He has already surpassed them in two games after showing two versions in his match against Collins. The first, the untouchable Swiatek from the bottom of the court that allowed him to win the first set with authority, moving his rival from behind both with the forehand and with the backhand. So, in addition to that initial 6-3 lead, the Pole broke Collins’ serve from the start in the second round to make it 2-0.
However, then it appeared a patchy version of Swiatek with the service. Excellent until then, scoring first and even a couple of direct serves, something he did for a good part of the second set, Iga suffered the good lip of a Collins throw in search of a counter-break.
The American did it soon enough, to find 2-2. This allowed Collins to grow on her serve throughout the second set and wait for her rival to crack. It came at 5-4 for the American, who after saving a break point in the previous game stayed strong and took advantage of Swiatek’s unforced errors to, for the fourth time, close out the rest of the second set at 6-4 .
however, the polish will be redid soon to take control of the third round, increase his service performance and wait for his chance at the others. This came in the third game and allowed him to achieve a break that allowed him to face the rest of the game more comfortably. He closed it with a third option for a final 6-2 that kept him on Canadian soil and allowed him to lift his number 1 in the world, especially after quarterfinal loss to Aryna Sabalenka.
Wait for Swiatek in the semifinals Jessica Pegulawhich opened the turn of the quarterfinals in a fierce match against Coco Gauff, in an American duel with options for both. Pegula took the first set 6-2, but he saw how, despite responding to a Gauff break for 3-5 in the second, his rival struck again to force the third set with 7-5. In it, Pegula returns the partial for a 6-2, 5-7 and 7-5 that puts him in the semifinals in what will be his eighth match against Swiatek, who dominates 5-2 in the head-to-head.
Source: La Verdad
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