Iga Swiatek prevails over Sloane Stephens 6-4 7-5 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday. Swiatek will face off with Madison Keys in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. This will be her best result in this event. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Pole added to her prize money $ 12,390 after winning this match. She has won already $ 28,730 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Pole will add $ 28,710 to her earnings to get in total $ 57,440 in total.
Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Sloane Stephens Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:39
At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 75 points vs. Stephens’s 60.
Swiatek
The Pole was pretty focused in converting 55% of the break points that she conquered (6/11).
Stephens
On the other side, Stephens was struggling when converting her break points (only 36% – 4/11). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Swiatek and Stephens is 1-0 for Iga.
Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Madison Keys – stats
Swiatek will face Keys in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Swiatek (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Swiatek won 6-1 6-0 in the quarter in Indian Wells back in March 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Swiatek started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Sloane Stephens in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, that was not enough for Iga to win the set because Sloane managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Swiatek kept her focus to break the American in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game.
Swiatek converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, Stephens converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (1-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (2-4 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 64 points. Swiatek was the one to win the set after conquering 6 points more than the American (35-29). The Pole lost 16 points on serve (18-16). on the other side of the net, Sloane conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
The Pole won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game, The Pole broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 12th game to win the set 7-5.
A crucial moment of this set was when Iga won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.
Iga converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (1-2 30-40), the 5th (3-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Sloane converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A), the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40).
They contested 71 points. The Pole was the one to win the set after conquering 9 points more than the American (40-31). The Pole lost 12 points on serve (22-12). Regarding the other side of the net, the American conceded 18 points on serve (19-18).
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
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- Jessica PegulaPegula – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-75 6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
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- Shelby RogersRogers – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (w/o) – Stats and score progression
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- Calvin HemeryHemery – Ty TrombettaTrombetta (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Evan KingKing – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-1 3-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
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Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Madison KeysKeys (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alison RiskeRiske – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ons JabeurJabeur (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-3) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Shelby RogersRogers (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (1-2) – H2H details and stats
