{"id":3974,"date":"2023-10-30T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/iga-swiatek-defeats-marketa-vondrousova-at-wta-finals\/30\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:50:23","slug":"iga-swiatek-defeats-marketa-vondrousova-at-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/iga-swiatek-defeats-marketa-vondrousova-at-wta-finals\/30\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek defeats Marketa Vondrousova at WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>CANCUN, Mexico &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> climbed out of a deep early hole against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marketa Vondrousova<\/a> at the WTA Finals and then pulled away by dominating the second set for a 7-6 (3), 6-0 victory in round-robin action Monday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Open champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Coco Gauff<\/a> was scheduled to face three-time major runner-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ons Jabeur<\/a> in the other singles match on Day 2.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, who won the French Open in June for her third Grand Slam title, is ranked No. 2 and has a chance to overtake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> at No. 1, depending on their results at the season-ending championships.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The left-handed Vondrousova, the reigning Wimbledon champion, broke in three of Swiatek&#8217;s initial four service games en route to a 5-2 edge at the outset. Swiatek had trouble finding her range on the temporary outdoor hard court that has drawn criticism from some players at the event: She was responsible for 13 of the match&#8217;s first 16 unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>Vondrousova served for that set at 5-2 and 5-4, but Swiatek began turning things around and grabbed 13 of 17 points in one stretch. What became a four-game run put Swiatek ahead 6-5.<\/p>\n<p>At 3-all in the tiebreaker, Swiatek took over for good. She smacked a big forehand winner, collected a service winner and hit her first ace of the evening to get to set point, before Vondrousova double-faulted to end it.<\/p>\n<p>That set took 64 minutes. The second lasted just 35, with Swiatek holding a 27-9 edge in points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38782773\/iga-swiatek-defeats-marketa-vondrousova-wta-finals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANCUN, Mexico &mdash; Iga Swiatek climbed out of a deep early hole against Marketa Vondrousova at the WTA Finals and then pulled<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/iga-swiatek-defeats-marketa-vondrousova-at-wta-finals\/30\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[669,46,1061,2564,1062,2565,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}