Iga Swiatek gets the better of Gauff in the semifinal. HIGHLIGHTS – ROME RESULTS

Iga Swiatek victorious over Cori Gauff 7-6(3) 6-3 in the semifinal in Rome on Saturday. Swiatek will seek to keep on going in this event against Karolina Pliskova in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 46 minutes. This will be her best result in this event. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 1^st round in 2020. Here you can see her history at this event.

Iga added to her prize money € 62,097 after conquering this match. She has won already € 132,258 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Pole will add € 46,372 to her earnings to get in total € 178,630 in total.

Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 79 points vs. Cori’s 67.

Swiatek

Swiatek was well focused in converting 75% of the break points that she procured (3/4).

Gauff

On the other side, Gauff wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Swiatek and Gauff is 1-0 for Iga.

Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Karolina Pliskova – stats

Swiatek will compete against Pliskova in the final.

There is no head to head record between Iga Swiatek and Karolina Pliskova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Live score progression and stats

Iga won the set after she broke Cori in the 3^rd

(2-1) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. However, Swiatek didn’t lose the lead to win the set 7-6.

They played 86 points. The Pole was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Cori (46-40

). The Pole lost 16 points on serve (29-16). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 16 points on serve (23-16).

Iga won the set after she broke Gauff in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game. Gauff tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (5-2) game. Nonetheless, the Pole didn’t make any concession anymore to win the set 6-3.

The Pole failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.

There was a pivotal moment in this set when Swiatek won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set so as to convert the score from 1-1 to 5-1.

They played 58 points. Iga was the winner of the set after clinching 12 more points than the American (35-23). Swiatek lost 9 points on serve (21-9). On the other side, Gauff conceded 14 points on serve (14-14).

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Petra MarticMartic (6-1 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Cori GauffGauff (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats and score progression

Upcoming matches

• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – H2H details and stats