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World number one Iga Swiatek said she found the right balance between taking risks and playing aggressively in her 6-4 6-4 win over Britain's Emma Raducanu in Stuttgart on Friday as the Polish star celebrated her 21st victory in a row.
STUTTGART (Germany): World number one Iga Swiatek racked up her 21st successive win as she powered into the Stuttgart semi-finals by beating US Open champion Emma Raducanu in straight sets on Friday. Swiatek, 20, sealed a 6-4, 6-4 victory to set up a semi-final with Liudmila Samsonova. Both players have yet to drop a set in Stuttgart. "I know her since we were juniors, I have seen her progress and she is playing with a lot of confidence," Swiatek said of Samsonova who beat Germany's Laura Siegemund 7-5, 6-3 in her quarter-final.
Emma Raducanu gave Iga Swiatek arguably her stiffest test this year as she fell to a 6-4 6-4 defeat to the world No 1 at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES : Tracy Austin knows the pitfalls of being a teenage success story all too well after triumphing at the 1979 U.S. Open at just 16 but feels what she went through bears no comparison to the social media onslaught that young players now have to deal with.
Emma Raducanu is out of the Stuggart Open after a straight-sets loss to world number one Iga Swiatek but fans are still happy with the Brit’s progress.
World number one Iga Swiatek racked up her 21st successive win as she powered into the Stuttgart semi-finals by beating US Open champion Emma Raducanu in straight sets on Friday.
Iga Swiatek beat Emma Raducanu 6-4 6-4 at the quarter-final stage of the Stuttgart Open. The match represented Raducanu's first against a top 10 performer, and she gave an impressive account of herself against the game's pre-eminent women's player, but, ultimately, Swiatek underlined her status as the favourite for the French Open with a performance of ruthless hitting. Ad/> World No.