{"id":173076,"date":"2025-09-22T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173076\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:50:11","slug":"iga-swiatek-overcomes-serving-errors-to-win-korea-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173076\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga \u015awi\u0105tek overcomes serving errors to win Korea Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sep 21, 2025, 09:08 AM ET<\/p>\n

SEOUL, South Korea — Top-seeded Iga \u015awi\u0105tek<\/a> overcame a poor first set to beat No. 2-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 and win the Korea Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u015awi\u0105tek dropped her own serve five times, was edged out 6-2 in aces, had nine double-faults and even won fewer points than Alexandrova during a tight contest at Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center lasting close to three hours.<\/p>\n

Even \u015awi\u0105tek could not believe how she did it.<\/p>\n

“First of all, I want to congratulate Ekaterina for an amazing week and an amazing final,” said the No. 2-ranked \u015awi\u0105tek. “Honestly, I don’t know how I won it because you were playing great and I just tried to stay alive.”<\/p>\n

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She praised the performance of No. 11-ranked Alexandrova, who came out blazing to take the first set in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully we’re going to play more finals because it’s always tough against you,” \u015awi\u0105tek said. “But it’s also entertaining.”<\/p>\n

\u015awi\u0105tek’s vast experience saw her through. It was the six-time Grand Slam champion’s third title of the year and 25th overall. The 24-year-old Pole won the Cincinnati Open title last month and clinched her first Wimbledon title in July.<\/p>\n

She improved to 25-5 overall in WTA finals and chalked off a personal milestone.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy that I could win here because of the family history,” she said. “My dad couldn’t win the Olympics [here], but at least I won this tournament. So hopefully he’s going to come next year to enjoy everything.”<\/p>\n

Tomasz \u015awi\u0105tek, her father, competed as a rower for Poland at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 21, 2025, 09:08 AM ET SEOUL, South Korea — Top-seeded Iga \u015awi\u0105tek overcame a poor first set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-173076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}