Wimbledon, Iga Swiatek and Belinda Bencic
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There’s also a range of doubles matches scheduled for day 11, with Brit Joe Salisbury teaming with Luisa Stefani to take on the team of Sam Verbeek and Katerina Siniakova in the mixed doubles final.
The balls kept on listening to Iga Swiatek on Wednesday as the Polish eighth seed walloped Liudmila Samsonova 6-2 7-5 to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the first time.
It’s Iga Świątek, the five-time Grand Slam champion who spent 125 weeks as the world No. 1 between early 2022 and late 2024. She’s the No. 8 seed at Wimbledon, but she’s actually the world No. 4. Only three of the top seven players in the world are left in the draw.
Sinner dodged a bullet in the fourth round as Grigor Dimitrov was forced to retire while two sets up. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Before this year, there was no love lost between Iga Swiatek and the grass courts of Wimbledon. So what if it was called the spiritual home of lawn tennis?
Iga Swiatek booked her second last-eight spot at Wimbledon and also pulled off a Maria Sharapova Grand Slam feat. On Monday, the fourth-seeded Pole dropped a total of five games en route to overcoming Clara Tauson 6-4 6-1.