Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek opened her place in the last 16 of the WTA 1000 Cincinnati open when her opponent Marta Kostyuk withdrew from the tournament on Sunday due to a wrist injury she sustained last week at the Canadian Open last week; While Anna Kalinskaya Amanda Anisimova made up, the finalist of Wimbledon and Madison Keys, Elena Rybakina and Ekaterina Alexandrova are all safe on Monday.
I was on a boat, I slept there and everything. I could see the coast and every big city that we have there from the point of view of water. My friends were there. It was all super fun and I thought it was great. Iga Swiatek
Kostyuk sustained a wrist injury during a fall in Montreal that eventually led her to withdraw into tears of her quarterfinals against Rybakina.
The Ukrainian then competed in Cincy as the 25th seed, and received a bye of the 2nd round, where she produced a stunning, 6-0 6-1, Drubbing by Tatjana Maria in Germany.
Kostyuk wrote on Instagram: “The wrist injury I sustained in Montreal has been a challenge in the last few days. I gave everything to be ready for Cincinnati. With the help of my incredible team I succeeded in stepping on the court and ending my match yesterday. New York.”
After her walk-over in the last 16, Swiatek Hoorns will lock with Sorana Cirstea, after the Romanian recovered after missing a set point in the first set to beat Lucky Loser Yuan Yue from China, 6-7 6-4, back in 2-4 in the second set and 0-2 in the third set and 0-2.
Swiatek leads the head-to-head, 4-0, over Cirstea, and, if the 24-year-old pole can beat her again, she will reach the quarterfinals in Cincy for the 3rd year in a row.
In those 3 years, Swiateek was the best seed here, but this season she arrives 3rd during the 3rd behind Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.
Although both have surpassed the pole in the ranking, Swiatek rejects the idea that she was ‘disappeared’, despite what some may suggest.
“It happens, it’s sport,” said Swiatek, referring to her title dryness before he won the Wimbledon title last month. “I think I had some challenges, and some tournaments where I played very well, but still lost in the semi -final or usually to the winner. I was not gone, I was there.”
After an intense 2 weeks at the All England Club, Swiatek from Tennis stopped by spending three and a half days on the Baltic Sea at the Polish coastline.
“I was sitting on a boat, I slept there and everything,” said Swiatek, who posted photos of her jetskiën on Instagram. “I could see the coast, and every big city we have there from the point of view of water. My friends were there. It was all super fun and I thought it was great.”
Anna Kalinskaya disrupted Amanda Anisimova, the 5th seed and Wimbledon -finalist, on Monday
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Meanwhile, on Monday, no. 28 Seed Anna Kalinskaya from Russia, which was viewed by her dog, Bella, on the sidelines, her 3rd top 10 victory of 2025 with a Straight sets of Amanda Anisimova, the American 5th seed, 7-5 6-4, achieved the victory in an hour and 41 minutes.
Kalinskaya continues to meet her countryman, Ekaterina Alexandrova, the 12th seed, who sent the Australian Maya Joint, 6-4 6-3 in 65 minutes, sent for a place in the last 8 on Wednesday.
Madison Keys, sown 6, wiped past the qualification Aoi Ito in just 62 minutes in the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio.
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Madison Keys, the American 6th Seed, arranged in her power game, and won 11 of the last 13 games, to beat the unconventional Aoi Ito, 6-4 6-0, only 62 minutes to neutralize the paste of the Japanese.
Keys then competes against Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, after the 9th former Wimbledon champion Fought along Elise Mertens, 4-6 6-3 7-5, in 2 hours and 12 minutes, and maintained her control over the Belgian by beating her for the 6th time in 7 career meetings, this time of a set for the first time.
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka needed more than 3 hours to beat Emma Raducanu on day 5 of the Cincinnati Open
In a collision of US Open Champions, top seeds Aryna Sabalenka walked past Emma Raducanu, the no. 30 seed, the 27-year-old Wit-Russia who needed a tiebreak in the 3rd set to see the 22-year-old British British no. 1, 7-6 (3) 4-6 7-6 (5), after 3 hours and 9 minutes.
It was the 4th longest match of Sabalenka’s career, while she improved to 3-0 against Raducanu in general.
Her next opponent is the Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain, who defeated the American Wildcard Taylor Townsend for the second time in as many meetings, 6-4 6-1, in 81 minutes, in 81 minutes, to her 2nd consecutive WTA 1000 last 16 appearance.
British no. 1 Emma Raducanu came very close to the beating of Aryna Sabalenka, but collapsed in a 3rd set of breaker on Monday
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