Swiatek boasts a perfect 3-0 head-to-head record against the American and is yet to drop a set against her.Įlsewhere in the draw, second seed Paula Badosa breezed her way into the last eight by thrashing Louisa Chirico 6-0, 6-3, in less than an hour. Iga is a champion and it’s going to be an opportunity to see if I have improved since the last time,” she added. “Obviously the level is going to be great. “I’m thinking about my doubles match later today, so we’ll think about that when the time comes.” “I haven’t thought about it,” Gauff said after her latest win. Gauff, who is the sixth seed in the draw, edged her way past former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Overall, she has recorded 61 wins against eight losses which is another Tour-leading figure.Īwaiting the Pole in the quarter-finals will be Coco Gauff in what will be their first meeting since the final of the French Open, which Swiatek comprehensively won 6-1, 6-3. Swiatek is through to her 12th tournament quarter-final of the year, which is more than anybody else on the WTA Tour. “But overall, the first matches of any tournament is about adjusting to the conditions we have here.” “Qinwen, she has a different game style because she’s playing topspin on her forehand and the ball is flying pretty high,” Swiatek said. She has now won 14 out of 18 matches this season which has gone to three sets. Swiatek dropped her serve only once against Zheng as she won 74% of her first service points. The top seed battled past Chinese world No.28 Zheng Qinwen 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, in a clash that lasted beyond two hours. Sakkari s the third top 10 seed to crash out of the US Open after Simona Halep and Daria Kasatkina. It’s disappointing, it hurts, because I was feeling better, I was enjoying it, I was feeling good on the court and it was disappointing that my level was so low today.” I wouldn’t say it’s a bad year, I’d say it’s a not-so-good second part of the season.
“I had a great start to the season, it’s just that the last four months have not been good.
I’m in the Top 8 in the Race, I’m still in the Top 8 in the ranking,” she reflected. She is still in contention for qualifying for the season-ending WTA Finals in November. She just closed her eyes and was playing freely.”ĭespite the disappointing loss, Sakkari remains upbeat about her season overall which has consisted of two contrasting halves. I don’t think we made such a big mistake. “I expected another player from what we (my team) had studied. The thing is, she was playing free, she had nothing to lose,” said Sakkari. Prior to playing Sakkari, Xiyu had won 13 out of her last 20 Tour matches played and reached the semi-finals of the Citi Open. Reflecting on her latest performance, the 27-year-old admits the type of tennis produced by Xiyu was something she and her team wasn’t expecting.
Is it the fifth time this season she has lost to a player ranked outside the world’s top 50. Since reaching the third round at Wimbledon, she has failed to win back-to-back matches at four consecutive tournaments. Sakkari’s loss comes during what is a turbulent time for her on the Tour. “I had a break in the third set, if I could find a way to hold my serve one more time and then serve for the match, it would have been different.” “I had on one hand an opponent on a good day and on the other a mediocre Maria who couldn’t find a way to close the match,” Sakkari said during an interview with Greek publication SDNA. To add to Sakkari’s frustration, she also had a 3-1 lead in the decider before suffering her earliest exit from the tournament since 2018. A 21-year-old player who had previously only ever won one main draw match at a major tournament before this year’s US Open. The world No.3 boasted a one-set lead before falling 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, to Chinese world No.75 Wang Xiyu.
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