Iga Swiatek exterminates Cori Gauff 6-2 6-3 in the semifinal in Beijing on Saturday after playing a fantastic match to fight against Liudmila Samsonova or Elena Rybakina in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes.
The Pole added to her prize money $ 378,000 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 780,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Swiatek will add $ 544,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 1,324,000 in total.
Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 61 points vs. Gauff’s 39.
Swiatek
Iga served very well to win 87% of the points (26/30) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (6/10) on her second serve. Swiatek was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8).
Gauff
On the other side, Coco wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Swiatek and Gauff is 8-1 for Iga.
Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Liudmila Samsonova or Elena Rybakina – stats
Swiatek will play either Liudmila Samsonova or Elena Rybakina in the final. The head to head is 2-0 vs. Liudmila Samsonova and 1-3 vs. Elena Rybakina.
Live score progression and stats
Iga in this set was too good for Gauff and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking Coco 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 the Pole won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the game count from 0-1 to 5-1.
Iga converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 3rd (1-1 15-40), the 5th (3-1 40-A), the 7th (5-1 30-40) and the 9th game (6-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Swiatek didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 62 points. The Pole was the winner of the set after clinching 14 more points than Coco (38-24). Iga lost 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, the American conceded 22 points on serve (19-22).
Swiatek had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Cori Gauff in the 2nd game (2-0). That break was crucial for Iga to win the set (6-3) as no one dropped a serve anymore.
Iga was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 9th game (5-3 0-40). On the other side, the Pole didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 38 points. Swiatek was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Coco (23-15). The Pole was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (16-3). On the other side, Coco conceded 7 points on serve (12-7).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Cori GauffGauff (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-3) – H2H details and stats