After receiving an on-court medical time-out for what appeared to be a lower-back issue, Kalinskaya started the second set with aplomb.<\/p>\n
The 31st seed, who upset Swiatek in the first meeting of their career in 2024, began to unleash her powerful, flat groundstrokes that have troubled her Polish rival.<\/p>\n
By fearlessly striking a pair of winners, Kalinskaya earned her first break points of the match on Swiatek\u2019s serve and converted when the world No.2 sent an on-the-run forehand sailing over the baseline.<\/p>\n
Though the Pole immediately broke back with a cross-court forehand winner, Kalinskaya reclaimed the upper hand, breaking again when a Swiatek forehand found the net.<\/p>\n
The two-time AO semifinalist had a trio of opportunities to break back but was denied by a steely Kalinskaya who dug deep, producing her first ace of the match en route to consolidating for a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Swiatek, suddenly vulnerable, contributed a double fault before Kalinskaya ripped a forehand winner to break the second seed to love. Striking the ball with a newfound freedom while serving for the set, the 31st seed banked another three forehand winners \u2013 including one on set point \u2013 to push the match into a decider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After receiving an on-court medical time-out for what appeared to be a lower-back issue, Kalinskaya started the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-427781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427781","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=427781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}