After a protracted title drought that spanned over a full 12 months, Iga Swiatek is again to dominating like tennis followers are used to seeing. After the 24-year previous collected her sixth Grand Slam title with an outstanding efficiency to win Wimbledon final month, she has now gained her eleventh WTA 1000 title on the Cincinnati Open.
After knocking off Elena Rybakina within the semifinals, Swiatek defeated Italian Jasmine Paolini in an in depth straight-set closing, 7-5 6-4.
With that victory, Swiatek improves to 6-0 all-time towards Paolini, dropping only one set within the course of. In fact, the 2 contested a significant closing at Roland Garros in 2024, with the Polish famous person successful 6-2, 6-1.
Cincinnati, a quick exhausting courtroom, was considered one of the vital troublesome surfaces for Swiatek to play on attributable to her western forehand grip and her tendency to hug the baseline whereas refusing to surrender courtroom place. That courtroom place mixed along with her sometimes attackable serve places her at an obstacle within the serve-return dynamic on quicker courts.
Świątek reversed that development at Wimbledon, and did so in Cincinnati as nicely. After the match, she was simply as shocked as many watching.
“I don’t know why I win the tournaments that have been just like the final ones by way of what I believed they have been going to be,” Swiatek mentioned on the trophy presentation, in quotes shared by the WTA. “So, thanks [to my team] for forcing me to change into a greater participant and discover ways to play on all these quicker surfaces.
“I’m form of shocked and tremendous joyful, so thanks for the superior help, to the group and to my household again residence.”
Swiatek is now as much as 18 massive titles in whole, including her 11 WTA 1000 trophies to her six majors and one victory on the WTA Finals. She has gained seven of the ten totally different WTA 1000 tournaments after including Cincinnati to her assortment, and is now solely lacking victories in Wuhan, Canada and Dubai to finish the total assortment.
This victory additionally will get Swiatek again to No. 2 on the planet, making certain that she is going to keep away from high seed Aryna Sabalenka till the ultimate of the U.S. Open if the 2 of them have been to each make it that far. She passes American Coco Gauff, who drops to No. 3.
Swiatek made it to New York simply in time for the U.S. Open blended doubles on Tuesday morning, the place she performed her first match about 16 hours after ending the ultimate in Cincinnati. She and Casper Ruud are into the semifinals after successful a pair of matches on Tuesday, and Swiatek will look to maintain the successful streak going into the principle draw beginning on Aug. 24.