{"id":96062,"date":"2025-08-20T05:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96062\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:35:09","slug":"iga-swiatek-makes-most-extreme-schedule-look-easy-at-us-open-mixed-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96062\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek makes ‘most extreme schedule’ look easy at US Open mixed doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been what Iga Swiatek has called her \u201cmost extreme schedule\u201d after winning a tournament final.<\/p>\n

Following her 7-5, 6-4 final win over Jasmine Paolini to earn her first Cincinnati Open title on Monday night, the world No. 2 took a private jet along with Carlos Alcaraz to New York to arrive in time for the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament <\/a>Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I stretched, did ice bath, quick shower, media, and after like [a] 1\u2009\u00b9\/\u2082 hour after the match, we already went to catch a plane,\u201d she said at a press conference on the first day of the retooled two-day event. \u201cSo that\u2019s it. Yeah, it was pretty fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IgaPoland\u2019s Iga Swiatek celebrates winning the quarterfinal mixed doubles match with Norway\u2019s Casper Ruud against Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Musetti and Caty McNally of the U.S. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Swiatek landed around 1:30 a.m. and hardly slept before her first round mixed doubles match with Casper Ruud to face Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it didn\u2019t show on the court.<\/p>\n

The duo rolled through the American pair 4-1, 4-2 in their first-round win, then went on to swiftly beat Caty McNally and Lorenzo Musetti in the quarterfinals 4-1, 4-2. It was three victories in about 18 hours for the six-time Grand Slam winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s much easier when you win a tournament because you have a lot of positive energy and adrenaline,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t say I felt that tired. I think I felt yesterday\u2019s match in my body because obviously the final is always, like, you get a little bit more tight. After the match, all the emotions, you can feel it in your body. \u2026 Also if I\u2019m used to playing singles, then playing mixed doubles, it is less intense. You don\u2019t need to run that much. I\u2019m enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IgaPoland\u2019s Iga Swiatek and Norway\u2019s Casper Ruud celebrate winning their quarter final mixed doubles match against Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Musetti and Caty McNally of the U.S. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Ruud admitted he was \u201cconcerned\u201d as Swiatek advanced further into Cincinnati, thinking their pairing may be in jeopardy with the tight schedule. Unbeknownst to Swiatek, he also was in contact with her team while the Polish player was competing in the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both prepared each other if we were to do well in Cincinnati, that something might happen. We said that early when we planned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have said that. I\u2019m sorry,\u201d a smiling Swiatek interrupted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s her will in the end and she decided to show up here, which is wildly impressive because she got to bed 12 hours ago in her hotel in New York, and she is here,\u201d Ruud added. \u201cShe was here stretching, doing her warm-up at 10 a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world No. 12 Norwegian will hang on to Swiatek\u2019s winning ways for Wednesday\u2019s semifinal round where they will face Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper en route to the $1 million final prize pot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been what Iga Swiatek has called her \u201cmost extreme schedule\u201d after winning a tournament final. Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2660,99,428,14687],"class_list":{"0":"post-96062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-iga-swiatek","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96062","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=96062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}