What a gladiatorial duel we will have! 🇵🇱🆚🇺🇸 Iga Swiatek will face Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals.
Iga Swiatek, world number 1, will face Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals of the US Open. The match will take place at the Arthur Ashe, the most important stadium in the complex, in the third round, after the matches between Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Karolina Muchova and Jack Draper vs. Alex De Minaur. The Warsaw native’s path through Flushing Meadows has been relentless. Her most complicated match, at least since the development, was in her debut, when she needed almost two hours of play to win against the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova (104th) by 6-4 and 7-6 (6). Subsequently, she had as her rival the Japanese Ena Shibahara (217th), who could do little against the power of her rival and ended up falling 6-0 and 6-1 in just over an hour. In the third round her opponent was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27th), whom she beat 6-4 and 6-2 in one hour and 35 minutes. In the fourth she beat Liudmila Samsonova (16th) 6-4, 6-1 and has maintained her perfect record over the Russian (4-0).
In short, he won all four rounds in straight sets to reach his first hard-court quarterfinal since winning the US Open title two years ago. He is one win away from adding 60 wins for the third consecutive season. He is currently on a 10-match winning streak when it comes to quarterfinal matches.
