World number three Iga Swiatek powered to a 7-5 6-3 win over Elena Rybakina to reach the final of the Cincinnati Open for the first time.<\/p>\n
The 2022 All England winner Rybakina – who had swept past world number one and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter-finals – started brightly. <\/p>\n
However, reigning Wimbledon champion Swiatek was always in control after recovering an early break in the opening set.<\/p>\n
“That was a tough match,” said the Polish third seed. “At the beginning it was pretty crazy, we played so fast that sometimes we couldn’t even run to the second ball. <\/p>\n
“I was there to play with intensity and good quality and I am super happy with the performance.<\/p>\n
“It will be super tough in the final. I will have to prepare tactically but I will focus on myself and try to continue the work I have been doing.”<\/p>\n
Swiatek, 24, will face either Italy’s Jasmine Paolini or Russian Veronika Kudermetova in Monday’s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number three Iga Swiatek powered to a 7-5 6-3 win over Elena Rybakina to reach the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-90263","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\/90263","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=90263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}