Swiatek would continue to dominate what had appeared a potentially tricky second-round match-up against a former world number one, although the 34-year-old Pliskova remains on the comeback trail after missing most of the 2025 season recovering from ankle surgery.<\/p>\n
Pliskova managed a response in set two, breaking for a 2-0 lead as Swiatek’s level once again dropped on serve – but the Czech was unable to consolidate, double-faulting on break point in the following game.<\/p>\n
Another costly double fault two games later gifted another break to Swiatek, who by that point had rediscovered her first-set level and completed victory in just 69 minutes by winning six of the final seven games.<\/p>\n
After 18-time major winner Martina Navratilova graded her performance an A+, Swiatek responded: “When legends like that say nice things about you, it means a lot. It is basically why you try to be the best tennis player possible, so that people appreciate it.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if it was an A+ because at times it was a tricky game. I felt like I played so many dirty shots in that final game especially, I wasn’t able to control them that much. So maybe not A+, more like B, I would say.”<\/p>\n
Victory extended Swiatek’s record of not losing before the third round at a Grand Slam since the 2019 US Open, and she remains the only woman to have reached the third round at all 26 Grand Slam events held this decade.<\/p>\n
However, she lost at that stage of this year’s French Open – the tournament where she had won four titles in the previous six years – and will now seek to avoid the same fate against Alexandra Eala, of the Philippines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiatek would continue to dominate what had appeared a potentially tricky second-round match-up against a former world number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670108","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=670108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}