By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennisnow | Thursday, February 20, 2025
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IgA swiatek It was squeezed into the desert dust today.
Seventeen years of phenomenon Mirria Andva Tried 10 aces and grew up in the last five stunning games of Swiatek 6-3 with the second seed, 6-3 accusing in the semifinal of her daughters WTA 1000 in the Tennis Championship without Duty Dubai.
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The loss comes a week after the bandage residue Stomped Swiatik 6-3, 6-1 in the Doha semifinal that grabbed its winning belt with 15 games and three-year reign as the Doha champion.
Asked to evaluate the number of WTA 1000 tournaments, Swiatek said the physical requirements and adjustments of the court required average obstacles like Andreeva’s or WTA Ace Leader Clara Tauson The world of crash no. 1 Aryna Sabalenka yesterday did not surprise her.
The reign champion Roland Garros suggested if the calendar does not change, we will see more up to 1000.
“Surely it’s a calendar thing. We will not be able to be stable for many years playing weeks,” Swiatek told Dubai media. “Also it’s not like some time ago that outside the Top-20 players, they were just being destroyed more.
“Now someone can win these tours. It’s like that for two years.
“But I feel like the calendar is not helping. Again, we have to change continents, we have to change the surfaces, we have to change the balls – it’s not easy. I’m not surprised.”
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Working with Wim Fixette coachSwiatek has tried to use its speed and rotates to extend the points and disrupt the big shocks. However, in the back-back losses to Andreeva and Ostapenko, Swiathek was constantly burned by the Line drive drive and fought to stall its slide in both games.
One of the main backbone of the game, Swiatek was acted 10 times today by Andreeva, who won 12 of its last 13 points of service by closing an hour, 36-minute triumph.
World no. 2 Swiatek, who threw a dramatic Tiebreker thriller located in Madison Keys in the Australian Open semifinal last month, said she traces today’s loss to Andreeva in a practical absence between Melbourne Park and swinging the desert.
“Honestly, I’m not so straightforward usually, but I would blame this performance for the lack of practice before because I had no time,” Swiatek told the media in Dubai. “I’m not happy with the results. I feel as if I’m under-reinforced.
“I need to talk to my team a little and plan the next few weeks a little different because I didn’t have a lot of time to practice in front of these tournaments.”
