{"id":398068,"date":"2026-01-09T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398068\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:57:13","slug":"suffocating-swiatek-gives-poland-1-0-lead-over-aussies-in-united-cup-qf-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398068\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffocating Swiatek gives Poland 1-0 lead over Aussies in United Cup QF | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        United Cup<br \/>\n    Suffocating Swiatek gives Poland 1-0 lead over Aussies in United Cup QF<\/p>\n<p>Former World No. 1 drops just two games to Maya Joint<\/p>\n<p>January 09, 2026<\/p>\n<p>2026 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Iga Swiatek gives Poland a 1-0 lead over Australia in the United Cup quarter-finals.<br \/>\n        By ATP\/WTA Staff<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Iga Swiatek overpowered Australia rising star Maya Joint Friday, capturing a convincing 6-1, 6-1 win in just 57 minutes at the United Cup quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek now has her country on the verge of reaching the semifinals at the tournament for the fourth straight year, needing just a victory in the men\u2019s singles between Hubert Hurkacz and Alex de Minaur or mixed doubles. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/apps?utm_source=atp&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=app_banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/-\/media\/&#10;9333ed00493246e6a2ad692fa18710b7.ashx\" alt=\"The Official App Of Tennis | Download ATP WTA Live App\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From start to finish, the World No. 2\u2019s experience prevailed as the Swiatek earned her second career win over Joint: Swiatek won 6-0, 6-2 in the Seoul semifinals, a tournament she\u2019d go on to win. Swiatek also earned her 15th singles win at the United Cup. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI think the intensity &#8212; the balls get quite heavy so I\u2019m happy that I was always pushing forward,\u201d Swiatek said on court. \u201cI got pretty confident at the end so for sure it was a good match.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Joint held serve to have an initial 1-0 lead, but after, the Swiatek show ensued. The six-time Grand Slam champion overwhelmingly controlled the rallies, often forcing Joint to scramble from side-to-side just to keep the rally alive. <\/p>\n<p>Swiatek won six straight games to win the first set with a breadstick in 26 minutes and had garnered \u201cIga\u201d chants from her Polish supporters early on into the match. Her set point, a cross-court forehand winner that sped past an outstretched Joint, summed up the match best. <\/p>\n<p>In the second, Swiatek and Joint traded holds, the latter of which earned some encouragement from the home crowd. Similarly, Swiatek recaptured the lead with a break, and didn\u2019t look back, en route to the double breadstick win. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Cup Suffocating Swiatek gives Poland 1-0 lead over Aussies in United Cup QF Former World No. 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-398068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}