Durning to peel, Iga Swiatek finally gets up. Who was going to say: she, queen of the roscos “They are 29 in the big tournaments, records,” a 6-0 fit against the American Madison Keys. You have to go back to June 2021 to find the last time that the Polish, Tetracampeone of Roland Garros, had tried its own medicine. It was in Eastbourne (England), on grass, in front of the Russian Daria Kasatkina. About sand, her natural domain, only the Porican Mónica Puig and the Romanian Simona Halep had managed to endorse a blank set. Hence that strange feeling of former number one, who throughout her career has signed a total of 32, only one below the Belarusa Victoria Azarenka, 33. So what does it feel like to be on the other side, the one of which she suffers?
“Well, I don’t like … but at least it’s fast, that’s the only positive thing. It’s weird. It has been one of the rarest matches that I have played in my entire career,” transmits the number two in the world after tracing in the eighths (0-6, 6-3 and 6-2) and progressing to the next station, in which it will run this Thursday (not before 16.00, Teledeport and Movistar+) with the rocky coconut gouff, Exposed the American to the abrasing reality of the data: 11-3 against her, 0-5 in clay. Now, there is hope for her, since she won in the last two crosses.
“Iga is very hard, but now I have much more confidence than before and I do not think about the face to face. I’m going to go out out there and I have enough tennis to win the game,” says Gauff, who has also risen. In his own way: with two set balls against, resists and resists, and ends up neutralizing the young Mirror Andreeva, who landed in Madrid wanting to eat the world again and leaves Tristona. He has just turned 18 and celebrates the age of majority, but the defeat (7-5 and 6-1) separates him from the painting and the place that, precisely, welcomed his hatching a year ago. Then he also fell into the rooms.
The young Russian and blushed Jack Draper laments when a British journalist draws the comparison: is that co -screwed similar to Nadal’s whip on the ground? Do not pass, come to say. “I haven’t won 14 Roland Garros yet, not yet … [risas]. Being left -handed, I looked at Rafa when I was younger, but I can’t compare myself; I would like to think that I share some characteristics with him, such as the attitude on the track or the way I hit me drivebut I’m still far from his level on this surface, ”he says after reducing Tommy Paul (double 6-2) and landing against Matteo Arnaldi.
English and Italian will jump to the track (not before 17.00) after cerúando-mensik (15.00). And the San Remo will do with the wings well open, since the mood chute obtained against Novak Djokovic on Saturday has added two triumphs of great value against Damir Dzumhur and Frances Tiafoe (6-3 and 7-5). How not to accuse the emotional wear of the victory against Nole, so common when a totem is taught? “I learned the lesson from previous occasions, in which I won a game that I did not expect and then it cost me a lot to maintain the level. On this occasion I have known how to be concentrated and isolate myself from the media noise,” he says.
At that time, Elina Svitolina is beating with Mooyuka Uchijima, to which she expires 6-2 and 6-1, without diversion or looking. Already achieved thirty, the Ukrainian does not give up and continues to pursue the glory that was resisted in Madrid and, why not, he thinks, in the Grand Slams. But it will not be easy this time. In the semifinal (not before 21.30) the powerful Aryna Sabalenka, superior to Marta Kostyuk (7-6 (4) and 7-6 (7), will be in front of Odense.
Daniil Medvedev or Casper Rud, the one allergic to clay and the other in low hours, but also struggle (13.00) by a square in the penultimate round. Another applicant will be Gabriel Diallo, Grigor Dimitrov executioner (5-7, 7-6 (7) and 6-4). The Canadian will run into the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, architect, at dawn, of the last that Among the favorites: 6-4 and 6-2 erases the Australian Alex de Miñaur and places Italian in the hot strip of the competition. Overcome by Carlos Alcaraz in the Montecarlo final, then injured in the second of the three sets, he emphasizes his hunger: “A hard game awaits me, but I don’t want to stop here.”
