Athletistic / Tennis. Belarusian Arina Sabalenka and Polish Iga Szwiatek will meet in the semifinals at the Thousand Meter Stadium in Cincinnati.
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Tennis. WTA-1000. Cincinnati. Semi-final. Swiatek – Sabalenka. Live broadcast
On Sunday, August 18, at the Cincinnati men’s and women’s tournaments with the 1000 category, the semifinals will take place. The first to enter the central court will be the 26-year-old Belarusian Arina Sabalenka, who currently occupies second place in the WTA rankings, and the strongest tennis player on the planet at the moment, the 23-year-old Polish Iga Szwiatek. Bookmakers favor the world’s number one racket in this match. You can bet on Swiatek’s victory with odds of 1.58, while Sabalenka’s success is estimated at 2.40.
The tennis players have already played 11 matches with each other at the professional level. Interestingly, they all fit into a short period of 2.5 years – from November 2021 to May 2024. The Polish team has a solid advantage: Iga has won 8 out of 11 meetings. Most of the matches between Szwiatek and Sabalenka took place in the decisive stages of the tournament: four times in the semifinals and five times in the final. Today, the tennis players will gather to determine the participant in the fight for the title.
Arina has beaten the Polish player only three times, and each time the Belarusian needed three sets to achieve this. Sabalenka’s last success in this confrontation dates back to May 2023, when the Belarusian won the thousandth final in Madrid (6:3, 3:6, 6:3). At the same time, Swiatek needed three sets only twice in eight victories over Arina. This season, tennis players have met twice – in the finals of the “thousands” in Madrid and Rome. Iga won both matches on clay – 7:5, 4:6, 7:6 and 6:2, 6:3, respectively.
At the current tournament in Cincinnati, Swiatek has already lost two sets to her opponents. In both cases, they were Russian women, but with the prefix “ex”, as in the case of Gracheva. In the quarterfinal match, Iga broke the resistance of our 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva with great difficulty. With the score of 6:5 in the deciding set, the Russian was two points away from the tiebreaker, but, alas, the Polish player managed to put pressure on the young Mirra – 4:6, 6:3, 7:5.
Aryna Sabalenka won all her matches in the tournament with a score of 2:0. And this despite the fact that the Belarusian rivals in the last two stages were not a gift. However, Arina first forced the experienced Ukrainian Elina Svitolina to sheathe her racket (7:5, 6:2), and yesterday in the quarterfinals she confidently beat our Lyudmila Samsonova with a score of 6:3, 6:2. We can say that at the “thousandth” in Cincinnati, Sabalenka improved from match to match and approached the fight with Swiatek in very good shape. Well, let’s wish Arina victory in this confrontation.
Tennis. WTA-1000. Cincinnati. Semi-final. Swiatek – Sabalenka. Live broadcast
The live online broadcast of this match will start at SPORT.RU August 18, 18:10 Moscow time
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