11 July,2023 07:56 AM IST | London | IANS
Iga Swiatek
World No. 1 Iga Swiatek saved two match points to defeat No.14 and Olympic champion Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-3 to advance to her first Wimbledon quarter-finals.
The victory marked Swiatek's 14th consecutive win and booked her a place in her ninth straight quarter-final. The 22-year-old Pole is the youngest player to make the quarter-finals at all four majors since Svetlana Kuznetsova. Swiatek will face Ukraine's Elina Svitolina for a spot in the semi-finals.
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With confident ball-striking, Bencic raced to a 6-1 lead in the opening set tiebreak before closing it out on her fourth set point to hand Swiatek her loss of a set.
Having kept herself in the match, Swiatek raced away with the tiebreak to take the high-quality match into a third set. Swiatek converted her first chance, breaking to 3-1. The Pole took a lead and closed out the win with her 33rd winner after 3 hours and three minutes.
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