By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, August 15, 2025
Photo Credit: Cincinnati Open Facebook
Let Kalinskaya showed rigid resistance but IgA swiatek Played with powerful perseverance reaching its third direct semifinal of Cincinnati.
The 24-year-old Swiatek converted her fifth point of the match by finishing a 6-3, 6-4 win to become the younger woman in the history of the open era to advance in three consecutive semifinals of Cincinnati.
Continuing her hunt for an 11th WTA 1000 championship – and the first Cincinnati final – WA will play a world Nr. 1 and Saballen or with the ninth seed Elena Rybakina for a place in the final.
“Surely the match was much different. I’m happy to just play my game,” Swiatek Andrew Krasny told her in her court interview. “Surely it wasn’t easy. Just happy I was strong.”
Semi -final number 3 in Cincy@igga_swiate Books its place with a 6-3, 6-4 win against Kalinskaya.#Cincytennis Pic.twitter.com/kqxlbmwfw7
– wta (@wta) August 15, 2025
The winner of Wimbledon Swiatek has won 12 of its last 13 games improving to 47-12 per season.
Today’s opening quartertherfinal was a Dubai 2024 semi-final match, which Kalinskaya included 6-4, 6-4.
Swiatte decided Tony by winning 12 of its first 13 points and breaking into the fourth match while accusing 4-1 lead.
Taking the court with the kinesiology tape by wrapping its right shoulder, Kalinskaya received a medical timeframe after the third match to have her left calf completely.
World no. 34 issued a love to close the gap in 2-4 and rescued two certain points holding for 3-5.
Respondents, Swiatek scored a backward winner under the line to turn her third point and build a lead with a set.
Pairier traded vacation in the third and fourth matches of the second set.
Even in the 3rd, Swiatek rose to eight of the next nine points, breaking into the seventh match and rapidly supporting the rest for 5-3.
Credit Kalinskaya, which goes up to number 30 in the live ranking, to fight straight to the end. Kalinskaya denied four game points in the ninth match, including whipping its two-way trademark below the line to save the fourth point of the match. A wide whip service helped him hold for 4-5.
The Swiatek service was at the point today.
Grand Slam champion won 24 of the 29 points of the first service and released a pair of heavy services converting its fifth match point to close within an hour, 34 minutes.
