{"id":473079,"date":"2026-03-13T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:31:09","slug":"swiatek-is-great-at-many-things-baking-isnt-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473079\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek is great at many things &#8212; baking isn&#8217;t one of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek is known to be one of the most well-rounded players on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz, with a wide range of interests off the court. (Earlier this week, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4465210\/swiatek-is-having-her-90s-movies-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">she professed her love<\/a> for classic 90s&#8217; flicks The English Patient and Legends of the Fall.)<\/p>\n<p>Baking is not one of those interests.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, scratch that &#8212; it was of interest, until the six-time Grand Slam champion discovered it&#8217;s one of the few things that doesn&#8217;t come naturally to her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried baking, because my sister bakes,&#8221; Swiatek told reporters after her dominant 6-2, 6-0 win over Karolina Muchova in Indian Wells on Wednesday. &#8220;She&#8217;s pretty good at that, and basically all members of my family could cook, and I&#8217;m terrible. So I tried baking, and it was a disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just threw it out to the garbage without even doubting it, and I understand that. I totally get it. It wasn&#8217;t edible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unlike her baking escapades, Swiatek&#8217;s run to a third BNP Paribas Open title has been anything but a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>                        Swiatek drops just two games to Muchova to reach Indian Wells quarters<\/p>\n<p>The World No. 2 has yet to drop a set in her first three matches, and one tiebreaker against Kayla Day aside, she&#8217;s yet to really be challenged.<\/p>\n<p>In what was perhaps her best match of the young season, Swiatek dispatched Muchova in just 77 minutes, breaking the World No. 13 five times and never facing a break point herself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was a great match,&#8221; Swiatek said. &#8220;I felt really solid and I could really &#8212; from the beginning until the end &#8212; play my kind of game and just play how I wanted to. I think the beginning was kind of tight. We played kind of on the same level, but then I managed to step up and break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s now into her 27th career WTA 1000 quarterfinal, where she&#8217;ll meet ninth seed Elina Svitolina on Thursday. Swiatek leads their head-to-head 4-1, including wins in Miami and at Roland Garros last year.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek won the Indian Wells title in 2022, and then again in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek is known to be one of the most well-rounded players on the WTA Tour Driven by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}