Iga Swiatek crushes Claire Liu 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Warsaw on Thursday after playing a great match to play Linda Noskova in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes. This run will match her best achievement in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu BNP Paribas Poland Open – Warsaw
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:37
At the end of the match, the Pole scored 69 points vs. Liu’s 47.
Swiatek
The Pole won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points after she converted only 38% (5/13) of the procured opportunities.
Liu
On the other side, Liu was struggling when converting her break points (only 17% – 1/6). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Swiatek and Liu is 4-0 for Iga.
Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Linda Noskova – stats
Swiatek will come up against Noskova in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Iga Swiatek and Linda Noskova since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Iga in this set was in much better shape than the American and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking the American in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Iga won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
Swiatek converted 25% of her break points (2/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 0th (1-1 40-A), the 2nd (1-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 5th (3-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (6-1 15-40). On the other side, the American was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 8th game (2-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 71 points. Swiatek was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than the American (42-29). The Pole conceded 11 points on serve (21-11). on the other side of the court, the American conceded 21 points on serve (18-21).
Swiatek didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Claire Liu in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Swiatek to win the set as the American found the way to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. The Pole kept her focus to break Liu in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Iga converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 30-40), the 5th (4-0 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Claire converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 6th game (1-4 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 45 points. Swiatek won 9 points more than the American (27-18). Swiatek surrendered 9 points on serve (16-9). Regarding the other side of the net, Liu conceded 11 points on serve (9-11).
Tennis Scores in Warsaw
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Viktoria HruncakovaHruncakova (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Heather WatsonWatson – Yuliya HatoukaHatouka (6-2 5-7 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Claire LiuLiu (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Yanina WickmayerWickmayer – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Heather WatsonWatson – Yanina WickmayerWickmayer (2-3) – H2H details and stats
- Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
