The seeded n ° 1 IGA Swiatek made a victorious start to Korea Open 2025 presented by Motiva on Thursday, beating Sorana CIRSTEA 6-3, 6-2 to publish her sixth victory in six games with the Romanian-and after, she revealed the connection of the family that made her very special.
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SwiTek’s father Tomasz was a rower that participated in the quadruple male scull event at the Olympic Games – Seoul 1988. It may be the first time of her daughter in the city, but she heard about her for her life.
“The 1988 Olympic Games were the culmination of his career, and he told us stories since I and my sister were children,” Swiattek said in his interview on the field. “So I am happy to explore this city – he spoke of being here as a great adventure. I play a different sport, but we are always on the Olympic site and I am surprised by the way the whole city always appreciates the Olympic tradition. It is great, because this event is the best that the world has in any field. Playing here, that’s an honor, and maybe my father will come!”
Playing her first game since her loss in the United States’s quarter-finals against Amanda Anisimova, Swiatek started quickly against an opponent to whom she never dropped a single set-the first set of their first meeting at the Australian Open 2022. She hammered a pair of winners of a forehand to break Cirstea in the first match, and quickly built an advance of 5-1.
CIRSTEA has always fought strong, saving the first five points against it with a fine portion and recovering one of the breaks while Swiattek is unleashed – but another winner of the post of the post sealed his sixth point. In the second set, Swiatek still had to sail in a few disorderly moments – she collected 19 winners at 21 unrefitted errors overall – but nevertheless saved the three points of break up against her, and converted her first match point when Cirstea sent a hit.
Swiatek qualified for his 13th quarter -final in 15 tournaments this year (excluding team competitions). She will then face a major champion colleague – the seeded n ° 8 Emma Raducanu or Barbora Krejcikova.
Seidel unleash Haddad Maia in the third longest match of 2025: The qualifier Ella Seidel went through a barnburner of 3 hours and 28 minutes to dethrone the title champion and the seeded n ° 6 Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 7-5 in the third longest match at the level of the tour in 2025.
The German classified n ° 105 dragged 5-2 and a match point in the third set, but crossed the five consecutive consecutive games in a blitz heavy forehand winners mixed with intelligently timed drops. Seidel, 20, has increased in recent months. This result was his third career victory in the top 30, which have all come since June – the 20 -year -old woman also beat Anna Kalinskaya in Berlin and Emma Navarro in Cincinnati en route to the last 16.
Nor is it the first time this week that Seidel has been fighting against the edge. She also saved five match points in her first qualifying match before overcoming May Hontama 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7) in 2 hours and 26 minutes.
Haddad Maia, who took a medical dead time leading 5-4 in the third set, then withdrew from the double tournament due to a right knee injury.
Seidel goes to her fourth quarter-final WTA, and first at the WTA 500 level. She will then face the seeded n ° 2 Ekaterina Alexandrova, the only former champion who remained in the draw, which went from 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 against the semi-finalist of Roland Garros, Boisson Laws.
