The Polish Iga Swiatek This Saturday she sealed her passage to the round of 16 of the WTA 1,000 in Rome by defeating, after a hard-fought second set, the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva in the third round, whom she eliminated with a final score of 6-3 and 6-4.
Swiatek didn’t sweep this time, but he once again showed that he is the strongest tennis player at the moment. Eager to win a second clay title in a row – after his victory in Madrid – and reclaim the Roman crown he won in 2022, having sidelined the 2023 fight due to an injury that forced him to step down, the number 1 signed two matches. in the Foro Italico of absolute supremacy.
In its premiere, it beat the American Bernarda Pera and in the third round he did the same to Putintseva, number 41, who even though he placed a higher level was not able to worry the Polish prodigy.
Because after the first set, in which the Pole did not suffer, Putintseva took control of the situation, something that is not usually seen in a Swiatek match.
The Kazakh leads 4-1, and he also has 4 break balls to make it 5-1. A round that seemed doomed, but the best tennis player on the circuit managed to turn the corner. He saved his serve in that game and his resurgence began. He broke his rival twice in a row and killed his first match point.
There are complications, but there are enough. This is how Swiatek enters the round of 16, a round where she will face the winner of the duel between German Angelique Kerber, number 331, and Russian Aliaksandra Sasnovich, number 113.
Source: La Verdad
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