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Another day, another dominant performance from world number one Iga Swiatek. Poland cruised past American Danielle Collins in Doha on Wednesday, winning 6-0, 6-1 in the blink of an eye and 52 minutes.
Last season was great, but it also carries a lot of baggage. So I’m really trying to shake it off and move on and not really go back to what happened last year.
Every Swiatek, Doha, 2023
Swiatek improves to 7-2 in 2023 as he enters the stretch of the season that saw him hit a 37-game hitting streak last year. The three-time Slam champion ran from Doha to the end of Roland-Garros in 2022. She went through Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, Rome and Paris without a loss, amassing the WTA’s longest winning streak. Tour since 1997.
Swiatek – It’s about the next challenge
However, Swiatek is more focused on the future than the past. After his dominant performance on Wednesday, the 21-year-old said he was trying to shake off those memories and create new ones for himself.
It was quite a nice chapter for me, but I’m really looking forward to the next challenges, he said. Last season was great, but it also carries a lot of baggage. So I’m really trying to shake it off and move on and not really go back to what happened last year.
Swiatek faces a highly anticipated clash with Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic in the quarterfinals on Thursday in Doha. Seventh-seeded Belinda Bencic improved to 14-2 on the season with a 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 comeback against Victoria Azarenka on Wednesday, and will face Swiatek for the second time in as many months.
Swiatek beat Bencic in the United Cup 6-3, 7-6(3). The Pole has a 2-1 lifetime advantage over the 25-year-old.
Belinda is such a great player that we played in the United Cup and it was a really tight match, Swiatek said. “I know it will be intense and it will be a big challenge. I’ll try to use my experience and we’ll see. but I know it will be fun because when you play with Belinda she plays really fast so you have to be on your toes all the time.
Ranked 42nd, Collins defeated Elise Mertens from Belgium (6-4, 7-6 (6)) in the previous round of the Doha Open.
Doha WTA 500, other second round results (Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, hard, USD 780,637, latest results first):
- Karolina Muchova vs. Caroline Garcia
- Beatriz Haddad Maia beat Daria Kasatkina (6): 6-3, 7-6 (7)
- Maria Sakkari (5) beat Ekaterina Aleksandrova: 6-3, 6-2
- Jessica Pegula (2) beat Jelena Ostapenko: 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
- Veronika Kudermetova (8) beat Sofia Kenin (WC): 6-2, 7-5
- Coco Gauff (4) defeated Petra Kvitova: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Belinda Bencic defeated Victoria Azarenka (WC): 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
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