Regarding IGA Swiatek, reaching the third round of a major, you can also put it in ink.
Swiatek, seeded No. 2 in Poland, experienced difficulties on Thursday but exceeded No. 66 Suzan Lamens of the Netherlands, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to reach the third round of the US Open again, which she did at Flushing Meadows-and all the other major-since the beginning of 2020.
She is the only player in the male or female tour to achieve this in this time.
The last time that she failed to reach the third round in a Grand Slam event was the 2019 US Open, when she lost in the second round against Anastasija Sevastova. Over the past 30 years, the only women with a longer sequence of third round appearances during a major are Serena Williams (45 consecutive, 1998-2012) and Amelie Mauresmo (24 consequences, 2001-08).
Swiatek did a quick job of the first set, hitting nine winners and two ASs. However, she stumbled in the second with 12 unrefitted errors and two double faults against lamens, who faced a WTA top-5 player for the first time in his career.
In the final set, Swiatek broke the lamens en route to an advance of 3-1. The lamens, however, retaliated, pulling 5-4 before Swiatek seized the match with an ace of sentence.
After his defeat in the semi-finals at the French Open earlier this year, Swiatek has since won 19 of his last 21 games. This sequence includes its first grass terrace final in Bad Homburg, winning its sixth Grand Salm title in Wimbledon, then rolling in the title in Cincinnati without leaving a set.
In other first men in simple feminine Thursday, the seeded n ° 13 Ekaterina Alexandrova, n ° 18 Beatriz Haddad Maia and No. 23 Naomi Osaka all won in two sets.
ESPN research has contributed to this report.
