This is the surprise semifinal. Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, the No. 1 and 3 seeds, respectively, were supposed to be here. Instead we’ll get a duel between an unseeded Russian ranked 26th, and an ...

Iga Swiatek of Poland plays a forehand return to Eva Lys of Germany during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

“For sure, I think, yeah, she plays well against me,” Swiatek said after her last meeting with Ostapenko, at the 2023 US Open. It wasn’t a statement that really needed to be made. A few minutes ...

World No. 2 Iga Swiatek won her 15th straight match in Doha with a straight-sets win over Elena Rybakina in the Qatar TotalEnergies Open quarterfinals.

Jelena Ostapenko broke five times thrashing Iga Swiatek 6-3, 6-1 snapping the three-time champion’s 15-match Doha winning streak to power into her second Doha final. Photo credit: MohamedFarag/Getty ...

She banged a return and then watched a Swiatek forehand sail long. She clutched her fists and screamed and let the biggest smile in years stretch across her cheeks. Dumbfounded, she trotted to the ...

I'm feeling really comfortable and we're going well." One of several searing forehand winners helped 2022 semi-finalist Swiatek break Lys for the first time and the 23-year-old did not take her ...

Keys came within two points of victory in that game, but Swiatek escaped courtesy of a punishing forehand and terrific backhand pass. At 5-5, Keys dipped at an unfortunate moment, double faulting and ...

She had found her range. Both on her first serve and on her forehand. What followed was unpredictable. The American broke Swiatek in the first game of the second set, then held her own serve.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Iga Swiatek is dominating her Australian ... 23 on her powerful forehand side. The one difficulty Keys had was getting going in her return games. But she finally converted ...