Iga Swiatek trashes Victoria Azarenka 6-4 6-0 in the quarter in Doha on Thursday after playing a remarkable match to deal with Karolina Pliskova or Naomi Osaka in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes. Iga won this tournament twice in 2022 and 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Pole added to her prize money $ 85,979 after winning this match. She has already won $ 158,944 until now in this competition. If she wins the next match, the Pole will add $ 149,376 to her earnings to get in total $ 308,320.
Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Victoria Azarenka Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:14
At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 52 points vs. Victoria’s 33.
Swiatek
Iga served pretty well to win 78% of the points (21/27) behind her first serve, and she won 53% points (8/15) on her second serve. Swiatek was effective at converting 83% of the break points that she conquered (5/6).
Azarenka
On the other side, Victoria was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Swiatek and Azarenka is 3-1 for Iga.
Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Karolina Pliskova or Naomi Osaka – stats
Swiatek will come up against either Karolina Pliskova or Naomi Osaka in the semifinal. The head to head is 3-0 vs. Karolina Pliskova and 1-1 vs. Naomi Osaka.
Live score progression and stats
Swiatek was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Victoria Azarenka in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for the Pole to win the set as Azarenka managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Iga kept her focus to break Victoria in the 9th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).
Victoria had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-4 to 6-4.
Iga converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 9th (4-4 30-40 and 40-A) and the 11th game (6-3 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Azarenka converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 0-40) and the 8th game (4-3 30-40).
They played 59 points. Iga was the one to win the set after conquering 5 more points than Azarenka (32-27). Swiatek dropped 9 points on serve (17-9). on the other side of the net, the Belarussian conceded 15 points on serve (18-15).
The Belarussian wasn’t able to offer any resistance in this set and the Pole won the set 6-0.
The Pole was flawless in converting all her break points in the 3rd (2-0 30-40) and the 5th game (4-0 0-40). On the other side, the Pole didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 26 points. Iga was the one to win the set after conquering 14 points more than Victoria (20-6). Swiatek was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (12-4). on the other side of the court, the Belarussian conceded 8 points on serve (2-8).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-4 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-4) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-1) – H2H details and stats
