Athletistic / Tennis. Russian Veronika Kudermetova and Polish Iga Swiatek will face each other in the quarter-finals of the women’s singles at the WTA tournament in Tokyo.
SPORT.RU invites you to a live online text broadcast of this meeting:
Tennis. WTA. Tokyo. Quarter-finals. Shwiatek – Kudermetova. Direct
The current week in women’s world tennis is marked by a prestigious tournament in Tokyo, with the 500 category. Yes, five representatives of the top 10 did not come to the Japanese capital at once, including the leader of the WTA ranking Arina Sabalenka from Belarus. . At the same time, our country is represented there by the strongest tennis players of the moment. Four Russian women have reached the quarterfinals at once and three of them have a chance to advance further, as Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Ekaterina Alexandrova will face off today.
So at least one of our tennis players will definitely be in the semi-final. Meanwhile, perhaps the toughest opponent will be Veronika Kudermetova. Polish player Iga Swiatek was not so long ago the first racket in the world and, of course, she will do everything possible to regain this title as quickly as possible. So it won’t be easy for Kudermetova to face her ambitious opponent, although losing mentally before the match is also impossible.
Veronica has a negative balance of personal encounters with a Polish woman. All four matches between tennis players ended in favor of Szwiatek. Additionally, Iga is such a troublesome opponent for the Russian that all of her victories over Kudermetova have been devastating. Judge for yourself: this season the tennis players met twice and the Pole won 6:0, 6:1 at the tournament in Doha and 6:1, 6:1 at the thousandth tournament in Madrid. Veronica managed to win more than two games in a match alone in 2020 at the US Open. Then the Russian lost to the Pole with a score of 3:6, 3:6. What can I say, the statistics are simply depressing for our tennis player.
However, this time Kudermetova may be able to force the fight on her troublesome opponent. However, psychologically, Schwiatek is not in the best condition at the moment. In the sense that during the American tour in August-September, she did not win any of the tournaments. Well, the loss of first place in the ranking also somehow affected self-confidence. Simply put, perhaps now, during the entire confrontation with Szwiatek, Veronica has the best chance to impose a fight on the Polish tennis player.
Tennis. WTA. Tokyo. Quarter-finals. Shwiatek – Kudermetova. Direct
Live online streaming of this match will begin at SPORT.RU September 29 no earlier than 7:00 Moscow time
Source: Sport
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