Tennis-Swiatek Dismantles Keys To Attain Second Straight Madrid Ultimate

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Prime seed Iga Swiatek made gentle work of Madison Keys to ebook a spot in back-to-back finals of the Madrid Open as she beat the American 6-1 6-3 after 70 minutes within the semi-finals on Thursday.

Up subsequent for Swiatek is the winner of the conflict between second seed Aryna Sabalenka and quantity 4 Elena Rybakina, who meet afterward Thursday.

Heading into the competition having gained two of their final three conferences, the 22-year-old Pole dominated from the beginning and wrapped up the opener in simply over half an hour in opposition to the 18th seed.

The second set was no completely different with Keys inflicting little bother to Swiatek, who misplaced final 12 months’s closing to world quantity two Aryna Sabalenka, because the world primary broke early and raced right into a 5-3 lead earlier than breaking once more to safe the win.

“I really feel actually good,” Swiatek mentioned. “I wasn’t actually fascinated by what occurred final 12 months. However repeating this consequence is a superb factor.

“I’ll have an opportunity to play a pleasant match in two days. So it’s actually thrilling. I’m glad total with the entire match.”

Swiatek, a four-times Grand Slam champion, is now the youngest participant to achieve 10 WTA degree finals on clay since Swiss Martina Hingis in 2000.

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