The world number one tennis player extended her winning streak to eight matches after beating Petra Martic to reach their fifth straight semifinal and their first in Madrid. Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek, is looking to win his first title in Madrid to complete his set of the biggest European clay-court tournaments on the calendar (he has already lifted the trophy twice at the French Open, Rome and Stuttgart). Before the tournament, he vowed to take things one match at a time while continuing to process the data points to maximize his play in the unique and relatively unknown conditions of the Caja Mágica.
“Only gaining the experience of playing here, it was easier and easier to maintain discipline in every game and make the right decisions, because at the beginning I felt that I had to take care of so many things that were a little different from Stuttgart, for example.” .
The next rival is the Russian Veronika Kudermetova this Thursday. swiatek and Kudermetova they will play for the fourth time overall and the second time this year. The Pole won all three matches and lost just one game when they last met in the Qatar Open semifinals in February.
“I feel like I’m playing better and better every day. This is quite good, because I didn’t know if that was going to be possible at the beginning of the tournament. But I was patient and hoped to get that feeling and today was definitely a good day,” he said.
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