In the night session on Saturday in the US Open, Iga Swiatek produced a remarkable recovery to beat Anna Kalinskaya and founded a last 16 match with Ekaterina Alexandrova, who came through her 3rd round against Laura Siegemund in just 60 minutes.
To be honest, Anna played great. She played all these risky balls, as she once did against me in Dubai. I just wanted to make a little fewer mistakes. I just have to be firmer. I just concentrated on simple things. She started making some more mistakes and it certainly became tight. I already felt that I had nothing to lose because I lost pretty bad. At the end I just went for it, because what else can I do? Iga Swiatek
“It was absolutely not an easy match, especially after the start,” Swiatek admitted after her victory. “I am happy that I managed to come back and play better, because I made mistakes early in the first set that I wanted me not to do that.”
Swiatek fought in her first night match of the competition and lagged 1-5 behind the Russian 29th seed and showed a big solution and resilience to dig himself out of the problems against Kalinskaya under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium for a noisy New York-Mermany.
The World No 2 saved 4 set points and won a tiebreak, before he finally saw Kalinskaya, 7-6 (2) 6-4, after an hour and 56 minutes.
“I felt, I had nothing to lose because I lost pretty bad,” Swiatek said about her fighting back. “So in the end I just went for it, because what else can you do?”
Kalinskaya built a 5-1 lead in the first set, partly thanks to Swiatek’s 15 casual mistakes and the no. 2 seed that landed only 41% of its first portions.
“I did not notice that my service percentage was low,” admitted Swiatek, who ended with a make -rate rate of 43%. “Sometimes I felt that I might go too much, maybe it risked in terms of choosing the places.
“So I think I tried to work on that, and on the one hand spoted, but on the other hand you can’t do that because your opponent will use it.”
At the front with 5-2, Kalinskaya held 4 set points, but she failed twice on 2 of them, so that Swiatek could go into a tear, and when the Russian also doubled the 10th game, the post brought the set to 5-all.
They exchanged breaks during the next 2 games and forced the breaker, in which Swiateek went up 5/0, so Kalinskaya finally lost her cool, destroyed her racket, but she kept playing.
The 24-year-old pole finally picked the set 7/2 by winning a 7-shot rally.
Anna Kalinskaya gave her advantage to Iga Swiateek with too many double errors and paid the price on day 7 of the US Open in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York
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The crucial game of the second was the 9th, when Kalinskaya Swiatek at 4-All, a breaking point with her 11th double mistakes of the game and the post took the moment to go up 5-4 and then successfully served for the game.
Asked what she thought while she was walking 1-5, Swiatek on-Court said: ‘I don’t know. To be honest, Anna played great. She played all these risky balls in it, as she once did against me in Dubai.
“I just wanted to make a little fewer mistakes. I just have to be firmer. I just concentrated on simple things.
“She started making a little more mistakes and it certainly became tight. I already had the feeling that I had nothing to lose because I was lost pretty bad. In the end I just went for it, because what else can I do?”
Later, in her press conference, she added: “It is easy to panic, but I didn’t.”
The victory improves the head-to-head record of Swiatek with Kalinskaya to 2-1, and gives her a tour leading 17 competition victories since the start of Wimbledon, while it is also moving the post for the world no. 1 Aryna Sabalenka with 20 Grand Slam victories in 2025.
Ekaterina Alexandrova made light work by Laura Siegemund and will meet Iga Swiatek in the last 16
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Swiatek, the 2022 US Open Champion, and 6-time big winner, was perhaps far from her best, but she clambered on to a last 16 meeting with another Russian, Ekaterina Alexandrova, against whom she has won 4 of their previous 6 meetings, but they are 2-2 bound to hard courts.
Win of Lose, Alexandrova has already reached her deepest run on the US Open by making the 4th round in her 9th performance in New York at the age of 30, while in 2012 Swiateek tries to be the first woman since Serena Williams in 2012 to win both Wimbledon and the US Open in the same year.
If it is successful in New York, the pole would also claim its 7th most important title.
Alexandrova, the 13th seed, destroyed Laura Siegemund of Germany, 6-0 6-1, in exactly one hour in court 5, and only surrendered 10 games on her way to the second week at Flushing Meadows.
Wimbledon Runner-Up Amanda Anisimova had to go the distance to see Jaqueline Cristian on Saturday evening
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In the meantime, Wimbledon Runner-Up Amanda Anisimova defeated Jaqueline Cristian on the eve of her 24th birthday, 6-4 4-6 6-2, in the stands, the American who needs 2 hours and 10 minutes to get past the Romanian.
Cristian, ranked 50, reached the 3rd round By beating 2 Americans in a row, veteran Danielle Collins and Newbie Ashlyn Krueger, but her line was broken by a 3rd, the 8th placed Anisimova.
Only 18 months ago, at the beginning of 2024, Anisimova was outside the top 400 after a long-term break in the mental health care of Tennis, and has since bent back and has won its first WTA 1000 title in Doha on the way in February.
The 27-year-old Cristian flew under the radar in New York to make the last 32, and in their first meeting they brought the first few games to test.
Anisimova was the first to take an aggressive attitude and showed off her much-praised backhand when drilling shots deep and difficult to break Cristian before consolidating to go up, 3-1.
The Romanian also dropped her next serve in the face of Anisimova’s ruthless efficient game, and raised 6 winners to Cristian’s 2 by the time the American increased her advantage to 5-1.
On 5-2 on the half-hour of the game, Anisimova, with the first sign of nerves, faltered, and after a mistaken game, she dropped her serve, but with a comfortable lead in hand she seemed to get it going.
While Cristian was holding, the American was able to take the first set at her next chance.
The Romanian never approached it in the first frame, and although her forehand is a weapon, it was not a party to Anisimova’s ability to touch the lines, to manage the ball and end the points efficiently.
The start of the second set was ragged, and by the time they were tied to 4-4, Cristian had made 14 casual mistakes on only 2 winners in the frame, while the statistics of Anisimova were better, although too crooked, because she made 18 forced mistakes and her winner of 9.
The American lost her focus at exactly the wrong time and served on 4-5 when she slid a 0-40 deficit behind 3 casual mistakes and produced a double errors, allowing Cristian to grab the second set.
Anisimova, however, settled and broke Cristian in the first match of the decision maker to only drop her own serve with a double mistakes, but she released the next few games, clung to her lead of one break before she took it up, up 5-2, without further fuss.
“I wish I had a little more fun today,” she said roughly later. “I have the feeling that I was struggling. I had to find a way to fight through it.”
Beatriz Haddad Maia produced a convincing victory over Maria Sakkari to set up a match with Amanda Anisimova for a place in the US Open quarterfinals
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Next to the American is Brazilian Brazatriz Haddad Maia, the no. 18 Seed, who saw the unpredicted but dangerous Maria Sakkari from Greece, 6-1 6-2, in just 70 minutes.
“I am very proud of myself,” said Haddad Maia after the game. “Maria is a great player. I have prepared myself in the best way to be ready for all circumstances. We were both looking for a better result in these years, so it was an interesting match.
“I tried to understand what was very clear in my mind with tactics. I just tried to make the execution and I think it worked, and I am proud of that.”
Haddad Maia served for the first set with a 5-1 lead just 25 minutes after the game.
The next game went to 3 Deuses, but Haddad Maia converted on her 2nd set point to finish a remarkably clean set in which she won 79% of her points on the first service, and only made 3 casual mistakes.
In the second, the 6-foot-1 Brazilian used her long levers to find oblique winners, and eventually got a break in the 5th game to lead 3-2, after he had only made 5 casual mistakes, including double mistakes by that time.
She won the following 2 games to serve for the set on 5-2, when her delivery briefly unraveled and she was twice double banking to give Sakkari’s double breaking point, she both kept her 1st match point to get over the line.
“Maria is a hunter,” said Haddad Maia on the field for a joyful late night pro-Brazilian crowd in Louis Armstrong Stadium. “I am happy with my mentality, try to stay in the present. I am happy with my work today.”
Anisimova, who has a 2-1 head-to-head record with Haddad Maia, grew up in nearby New Jersey and Will Probably also a bit with friends and family, but probably not too much because no 2 seed Iga Swiateek, her conqueror at Wimbledon, looms up in the coming days as a potential quarter -final opponent.
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