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Iga Swiatek is thru to her second particular person semifinal of the 12 months, and she or he is making fast work of the opposition.
The seventh-seeded Polish participant rolled to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Fifteenth-seeded Diana Shnaider of Russia on Monday within the quarterfinals of the National Bank Open in Toronto.
The blowout lasted simply 1 hour, 4 minutes.
In the semifinals, Swiatek will oppose Elina Svitolina, after the ninth-seeded Ukrainian rallied previous Sixteenth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 3-6, 6-0, 6-3.
Through 4 matches in Toronto, Swiatek has misplaced just one set. In her eight set wins, one was by a 6-3 rating, whereas she misplaced not more than two video games within the different seven.
‘I’ve been feeling good on the court docket,’ Swiatek stated post-match. ‘I understand how a lot I practiced and what we did (throughout) the practices. This is giving me confidence. It’s only a matter of being in a superb place that day and utilizing it. So I’m attempting to do my greatest day by day, maintain my routines, be actually targeted, and for positive, I’m actually comfortable to be in a semifinal.’
Swiatek, a six-time main champion, dominated together with her serve regardless of recording no aces. She received 88% of her first-serve factors (to Shnaider’s 51%) and by no means confronted a break level.
Swiatek additionally dedicated solely eight unforced errors, her lowest complete in a match in 2026.
The solely earlier particular person semifinal for Swiatek this 12 months additionally was in opposition to Svitolina, in mid-May on clay in Rome. Svitolina prevailed 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, elevating her profession document in opposition to Swiatek to 3-4.
The two additionally met on a tough court docket within the quarterfinals at Indian Wells, Calif., in March, and Svitolina received 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
Svitolina bounced again from the first-set loss to Alexandrova on Monday by cruising via the second set in 24 minutes. Svitolina ran her recreation successful streak to eight in a row by leaping out to a 2-0 lead within the third set, and Alexandrova by no means recovered.
Svitolina received the title in Rome, including to her January triumph in Auckland, New Zealand. This 12 months, she additionally fell within the remaining at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and reached the semifinals of the Australian Open and at Indian Wells and Stuttgart, Germany.
The different two quarterfinal matches are scheduled for Tuesday. Fourth-seeded Coco Gauff will face Twelfth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, and second-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan will go up in opposition to Eleventh-seeded Naomi Osaka of Japan.
–Field Level Media