Although her next opponent is ranked 166 places below her, Swiatek will need to show significant improvements after producing another error-strewn performance to beat 31st seed Anna Kalinskaya 6-1 1-6 6-1. <\/p>\n
The six-time Grand Slam champion cruised through the first set in 24 minutes, converting two of her three break points, but failed to hold serve in an equally one-sided second set. Her first-serve percentage dropped to 44% and she won just one point behind her first serve. <\/p>\n
Although she recovered strongly, winning five consecutive games, the errors continued to flow, including back-to-back double faults, and she had to save three break points while serving for the match. <\/p>\n
Her tally of 24 winners was outstripped by 29 unforced errors, having already amassed a combined 62 unforced errors in her previous two matches. <\/p>\n
“It’s not surprising for me because I know Anna can play amazing tennis,” Swiatek said. <\/p>\n
“I didn’t feel like I was playing worse in the second set. I feel like she played ‘in’ all of the balls that went out in the first.”<\/p>\n
After paying tribute to Osaka in her on-court interview, Swiatek went on to ask the Australian crowd to continue to cheer for her as she tries to eliminate one of their own. <\/p>\n
“Hopefully Naomi is well. She was playing great, I saw from the scores,” Swiatek added. <\/p>\n
“It’s exciting to be in the fourth round again. Guys, hopefully you’re not going to be harsh on my playing an Australian. [There’s] a lot of Polish flags here, so please make it even.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although her next opponent is ranked 166 places below her, Swiatek will need to show significant improvements after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-261579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}