Iga Swiatek was one of the many WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz stars who attended the player party prior to the start of the Dongfeng \u00b7 Voyah Wuhan Open, and her red dress drew much praise from observers.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday following her 6-2, 6-1 win over countrywoman Magdalena Frech, she explained how she chose the dress, and why she opted for red over black.<\/p>\n
“We don’t get any tips and recommendations in terms of the outfits, so I picked it myself,” she said. “I tried it at home and I wanted to be sure I got proper outfits for these players’ parties, because I know in China they always happen, and I want to be ready.<\/p>\n
“So I tried this stuff at home, and I like this one. I felt red would be the nice color, because lately I feel like I’ve been wearing black because it’s always the easiest, but I wanted to find something in a nicer color. I like this one. Red fits me, so I feel pretty confident in it. So yeah, I’m happy with the choice.”<\/p>\n
Swiatek was also happy to advance on Tuesday, in a match that wasn’t as convincing as the scoreline would have you think. The World No. 9 made 21 unforced errors and double faulted four times, but created a ton of chances for herself. She converted six of her 16 break-point opportunities and was clutch on her return, saving seven of nine break points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She’s now won 40 matches this season, and will move into the third round in Wuhan for the second straight year.<\/p>\n
“I’m happy to get the first match on the center court because I didn’t get a chance to play there before,” she told reporters. “…I was happy that I started making less mistakes, and I used my chances until the end of the match. For sure it was tougher than the score.”<\/p>\n
Swiatek will play American Ashlyn Krueger on Thursday for a spot in the quarterfinals. Krueger advanced after beating Lanlana Tararudee 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
This will be their first career meeting on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek was one of the many WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz stars who attended the player party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802891","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\/802891","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=802891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}