LETSS GOOOO🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Iga Swiatek Updates (@IgaUpdates_) November 1, 2025
Iga defeated Madison Keys 6-1 6-2💋
She was solid and consistent🫶
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Both 2023 champion Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina came out in peak fighting mode in Riyadh today, as round robin play commenced. 2nd seed Swiatek defeated 7th seed Madison Keys 6-1, 6-2. Swiatek had a first serve win percentage of 82, which pretty much says it all. The match was finished in just over an hour. And 6th seed Rybakina, facing Amanda Anisimova for the first time, defeated the 4th seed in just under an hour.
In doubles, top seeds Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini defeated 8th seeds Asia Muhammad and Demi Shuurs 6-3, 6-3. And 6th seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Alona Ostapenko defeated 4th seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens 1-6, 7-5, 10-5.
Former WTA stars Daniela Hantuchova, Martina Hingis and Garbine Muguruza were on hand for the ceremonial part of the proceedings. Both Hingis and Muguruza won the WTA Finals, and Hingus won it in both singles and doubles (twice). Last year, Muguruza was named Tournament Director of the Finals.
I wasn't that comfortable seeing Hantuchova there. She and Laura Robson were my favorite commentating team (they were terribly funny, and brought out the best in each other), but after Hantuchova's remarks about the WTA, it seems to e that a more appropriate representative (an advocate, for example) could be found.
