With the result, Swiatk takes second place in the world ranking, surpassing the American Coco Gauff; First place follows with Belarusa Aryna Sabalenka
Pooneta went to win a WTA 1000 tournament after 15 months, on Monday (18), winning Cincinnati Open, with a difficult victory over the Italian, 2 sets to 0, with partials of 7/5 and 6/4, after 1h50 game. With the result, Swiatek takes second place in the world ranking, surpassing the American Coco Gauff. First place follows with Belarusa Aryna Sabalenka. It was the 11th Polish WTA title and the 24th in the career.
The first set showed oscillations in the performance of tennis players. Paolini started better and took advantage of Swiatek’s instability to get a breakage and open 3/0. But the Polish reacted and gave no chance for the opponent in the five games in a row. He returned the break and began to lead the scoring. Paolini made the fourth point and fought a lot in the tenth game to get new equality in 5/5. But Swiatek showed more intensity to maintain, break the withdrawal and close the first partial in 57 minutes: 7/5. There were six brokenders in the first set.
The second set was also marked by looting breaks. Each broke once in the first two games. A new break was recorded in the fifth game in favor of Swiatk. Paolini returned the break again: 3/3. However, the instability of the tennis players was impressive and Swiatek got a new advantage in Paolini’s withdrawal: 4/3. The eighth game was very disputed. Swiatk saved two break points to reach 5/3. She drew up to close the match in 6/4 after 1:50.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carol Santos
