Swiatek

On Wednesday at Melbourne Park Iga Swiatek won her second Australian Open semifinal with a dominant 6-1 6-2 victory over Emma Navarro.  The match turned controversial when Swiatek got lucky with her drop shot pick-up in the fifth game of the second set because it appeared to bounce twice before she could grasp it.  The final points of Swiatek's victory under the sun at Rod Laver Arena led to an American matchup with Madison Keys who defeated Elina Svitolina 3-6 6-3 6-4 before

Iga Swiatek raced into the third round at the Australian Open on a hot and sunny Thursday before the fellow Grand Slam winner Emma Raducanu set up an intriguing match against the second seed with a convincing win.  Swiatek’s Polish colleague Hubert Hurkacz had his days, though, with the 18th seed losing in straight sets to Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic while Ons Jabeur progressed with a clear illness.  Back-to-back champion Jannik Sinner will open the evening session after that, while fellow Italians Jasmine Paolini

Iga Swiatek, the French Open victor, has received final and non-appealable sanctions, namely a one-month ban from competition, after test results showed that she ingested Trimetazidine (TMZ), which is on the WADA prohibited substances list. Such a definitive decision about this doping case was announced on Thursday by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after examining the evidence for the 23-year-old Polish player who had tested positive during an out of competition sample taken in August 2024.  However, the ITIA took a rather

Second seed Iga Swiatek will face Naomi Osaka for the Miami Open title after the Pole defeated American Jessica Pegula in Thursday's semi-finals. After Japan's Osaka battled past Belinda Bencic 4-6 6-3 6-4 earlier in the day, Swiatek, who will become world number one on Monday, claimed her 16th straight win with a 6-2 7-5 victory over Pegula to reach a third straight WTA 1000 final. Swiatek sailed through the opening set but had to fight back from an early break down in