Iga Swiatek overcame rain and an inspired opponent in Karolina Muchova to reach the Canadian Open quarter-finals on Thursday. The world no. 1 finished the match 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 after two hours and 47 minutes of play but rain kept interrupting forcing the players out of the court before the proceedings could be completed eventually.Muchova kept pace with Swiatek despite the latter coming out on top, especially in the first set.
The Czech did lose the first set but didn’t lose heart and recovered her poise long enough to take the second set and push the match into the decider. In the third set, the top-ranked Pole showed once again why she’d made herself so comfortable atop the rankings and why she’s been so good when playing against tough opponents like Muchova.The 14th seed won a higher percentage of first-serve points as compared to the top seed – 67% to the latter’s 61%.
However, Swiatek won 72% points on return on Muchova’s second serve while winning 58% of her second-serve points.Following her win, Swiatek said, “For sure I hit ups and downs, and I felt that. I did some mistakes in the second set that… you can’t do that if you want to win matches at that stage.
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