{"id":85469,"date":"2023-04-30T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=85469"},"modified":"2023-04-30T18:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:43:55","slug":"swiatek-strolls-into-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/swiatek-strolls-into-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek strolls into last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">World No.1 Iga Swiatek is back in the Mutua Madrid Open fourth round, courtesy of a 6-3, 6-2 victory over No.28 seed Bernarda Pera of the United States on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Swiatek, who came through her opener against Julia Grabher with the exact same scoreline, looked at ease on the clay at the Caja Magica, firing 16 winners and just nine unforced errors in her 75-minute victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">This is just Swiatek\u2019s second appearance at the Madrid showpiece \u2013 made her debut in 2021 and missed 2022 with a shoulder injury \u2013 and the three-time Grand Slam champion has been enjoying her time in the Spanish capital so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThe courts are pretty amazing, the whole facility is great,\u201d said Swiatek.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cYou feel like it\u2019s new and innovative and there\u2019s a lot of technology, which is nice. And the fans are really happy and enthusiastic. This is the first time I\u2019m staying a little bit closer to the city centre of Madrid so I\u2019m able to do a bit of sightseeing and the city is amazing. When I was here two years ago it was during Covid, so we were stuck in the hotel. So right now I\u2019m really enjoying it and Madrid is really beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Swiatek was broken at love in the third game, thanks to some punishing lefty groundstrokes from Pera. But the top seed responded immediately and snatched four games in a row to open up a 5-2 advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Pera saved a set point on her own serve in game eight but it only briefly delayed the conclusion of the frame as Swiatek held at love to scoop the opening set in 37 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The second set went by smoothly for Swiatek as she led by a double-break to sail ahead 5-1 and the two-time Roland-Garros champion soon secured passage into the fourth round, where she takes on No.22 seed Zheng Qinwen or Ekaterina Alexandrova.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it was easy. Every match is tricky here,\u201d said Swiatek of her duel with Pera, who saved 9\/13 break points in defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cI\u2019m happy that I played a little bit better every day and I\u2019m happy that I\u2019m getting my rhythm. Playing against a lefty is never easy so I think Bernarda really used it. But I\u2019m pretty happy that I was really disciplined and focused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No.1 Iga Swiatek is back in the Mutua Madrid Open fourth round, courtesy of a 6-3, 6-2 victory over No.28 seed Bernarda Pera of the United States on Sunday. Swiatek, who came through her opener against Julia Grabher with the exact same scoreline, looked at ease on the clay at the Caja Magica, firing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":85470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[875,837,843],"tags":[835,902,831],"class_list":["post-85469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mutua-news-en","category-noticias-tenis-en","category-noticias-tenis-femenino-en","tag-2023-es-en","tag-iga-swiatek-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85472,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85469\/revisions\/85472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}