Barbora Krejcikova beat Iga Swiatek in the final of the WTA 1000 in Dubai. The Polish tennis player had won thirty-six of forty-one games played in Doha and she had reached the final in Dubai with a second, frightening, overall run of 36-9.
The victory of the Czech tennis player therefore takes on a more important dimension, in the light of this. The music ends after eight consecutive victories for the world number one, who simplistically plays a bad game and she doesn’t find sufficiently valid solutions against an opponent who manages the important moments better.
And who especially in the first fraction keeps the Pole away when logic seems push for the most obvious of epilogues. After Kasatkina, Kvitova, Sabalenka and Pegula, the Czech confirms herself like a giant-killer status and wins her sixth career title on the WTA Tour.
Swiatek in the fate of the Czech, evidently, given that just in Ostrava at the end of 2022 Krejcikova had won her title by beating the Polish tennis player in the final. The Czechs did not take advantage of a break on two occasions during the first set, but still restored the hierarchies to 4-4 and sealed the final 6-4 thanks to a goalless serve.
The second part was decidedly poor in worries, with a decidedly foul Swiatek who won just 14% of the…
