😀@iga_swiatek celebrates her win with the Cincinnati crowd. pic.twitter.com/6gQd4uhr06
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Scheduled to play at 11 a.m. today, world number 1 Iga Swiatek had to wait for the court to dry. When she and 15th seed Marta Kostyuk--never an easy opponent--did go on, Swiatek found her rhythm pretty quickly, and defeated the Ukrainian player 6-2, 6-2, in an hour and ten minutes.
Swiatek said later that the conditions were a bit tough, but that she "just tried to focus on the little things, and not really analyzing the tactics...." She acknowledged that Kostyuk has a tendency to get balls back that other players would miss, but "...it was about my intensity, I think today I just kept it at a high level all the time...."
The top seed thought that she would be playing a bit later than she played, so she didn't get her normal routine in at the gym. "...These routines are something I like, you kind of do it automatically when you have 80 matches per year. But I don't mind changing it. Sometimes we do it when I feel like it's getting too much monotony, you know."
"She has a pretty clean technique, and running a lot, and fighting for every point, so I think, with that attitude, you can sure go far."
Swiatek's opponent in the quarterfinals will be Mirra Andreeva, who upset 5th seed Jasmine Paolini in the round of 16 today. The Italian star, down 2-4 in the third set, broke Andreeva on her fourth break point, but was immediately broken back. Paolini then saved a match point, but it wasn't enough. Andreeva defeated her 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
This is Andreeva's 4th top 10 win, and her second top 5 win.
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