Tennis, US Open: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova scared of Iga Swiatek

Iga Świątek’s competition this year began on the courts of New York with a duel with Kamilla Rachimowa. The Pole had great difficulty in finishing the match against the Russian. The tennis players almost played the third match on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Omar Razin’s opponent got three set points in the tiebreaker.But since then, the women’s ranking leader has won five matches in a row and turned the tide in her favour.

In the next round, our representative will face Ina Shibapara. After a marathon fight, Daria Saville was defeated on Tuesday.If IGA defeats a Japanese opponent, she will face the winner of the battle between Anastazja Pavlyuchenkova and Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the 1/16 finals. The former has some scores to settle with Świątek. The two met last year in the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, and the experienced Russian did not win a single game in the entire match.

Now the 32-year-old may get a chance to avenge the painful defeat in the Italian capital. And with her first-round match on Tuesday, she sent a signal that she is well prepared to compete in New York. At the start of the US Open, she faced Tyla Preston. The Australian has become a celebrity this season among others. From the fact that Defeated Magdalena Fręch during the WTA 500 tournament in San DiegoLater in the season, the talented player no longer had impressive results, but she managed to count on a wild card to a Grand Slam event in the United States. However, her adventure ended very quickly.

The start of the match between Preston and Pavlyuchenkova turned out to be even. The breakthrough came in the fifth game when Anastasia broke her opponent and went ahead 3:2. She then saved two break points and began to “move away” from her opponent. However, few people probably expected this at the time. The Australian will not score another goal until the end of the match.Even subsequent chances to break through in the fourth game of the second set of the match did not help.

The final score of the match was 6:2, 6:0 for the experienced Russian. The statistics of the player from Samara were also very good – She had 25 final shots with 21 unforced errors.. Taille had fewer errors, 18, but only two winners. Certainly not enough to face a fast opponent. So, if Pavlyuchenkova deals with Kokiarito and Svetek defeats Shibahara, there will be a second straight battle between the Poles and the Russians.