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Swiatek serves to Diana Shnaider during their quarterfinal matchup [Matthew Stockman\/Getty via AFP]Comeback win<\/p>\nFormer world no 1 Iga Swiatek cruised past Diana Shnaider to set up a clash with Elina Svitolina in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026<\/p>\n
Iga Swiatek swept past Diana Shnaider 6-2, 6-1 on Monday to reach the Canadian Open semifinals, where the Pole will face Elina \u2060Svitolina after the Ukrainian rallied past Ekaterina Alexandrova in Toronto.<\/p>\n
It was a confidence-boosting display ahead of the US Open for former world number one Swiatek, who won one of her six Grand Slam \u2060titles at Flushing Meadows in 2022.<\/p>\n
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Swiatek was in complete control against Shnaider, combining crisp ball striking with strong court coverage to overwhelm her Russian opponent in 68 minutes.<\/p>\n
She broke twice in the opening set, capitalising on a string of mistakes by Shnaider, who committed 12 unforced errors.<\/p>\n
Swiatek took a 5-2 \u200clead when Shnaider sent a forehand into the net and secured the set after another error from the Russian.<\/p>\n
There was little respite for Shnaider in the second set as seventh-seed Swiatek continued to dictate play from the baseline and never faced a break point.<\/p>\n
The Pole sealed a second break of the set for a 5-1 lead with a sharply angled cross-court winner that clipped the line, before wrapping up the contest when Shnaider sent a forehand long \u2060on match point.<\/p>\n
The win puts Swiatek into her first WTA 1000 semifinal \u2060of an inconsistent season in which she has failed to advance beyond the quarters at a Grand Slam and suffered a surprise second-round defeat by compatriot Magda Linette in Miami.<\/p>\n
That loss led Swiatek to make a coaching change, replacing Wim Fissette \u2060with Francisco Roig.<\/p>\n
Swiatek was also beaten in straight sets by Alexandra Eala in the third round at Wimbledon, where she was the defending champion.<\/p>\n
Swiatek serves to Diana Shnaider during their quarterfinal matchup [Matthew Stockman\/Getty via AFP]Comeback win<\/p>\n
Svitolina \u2060leapt into the air and pumped her fist in triumph \u2060after completing a 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 comeback win against her Russian opponent to set up a Wednesday meeting with Swiatek, whom she beat in the Rome semifinals in May.<\/p>\n
Alexandrova was untouchable in the first set, picking up where she left off after \u200cbeating world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the previous round.<\/p>\n
But the veteran Ukrainian stormed back to level the match in the second set and grabbed a 4-1 lead in the third when she \u200cpounced \u200con a net cord and hammered home a backhand for another service break.<\/p>\n
Svitolina dropped two games while leading 5-1 but regrouped to break serve and set up the meeting with Swiatek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world no 1 Iga Swiatek cruised past Diana Shnaider to set up a clash with Elina Svitolina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,2065,44,588,85,747,6075],"class_list":["post-851460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}