Australian Open: Iga Swiatek makes mild work of Emma Navarro for first SF since 2022

Iga Swiatek completely dominated No. 8 seed Emma Navarro 6-1 6-2 to make her second Australian Open semifinal and the primary one since 2022.

After dropping simply 11 video games by way of her opening 4 matches, the second seed additionally broke the American 3 times to simply bag the primary set.

In the beginning of the second set, the 2024 US Open semifinalist managed to make it a bit extra aggressive and even have the set tied to 2 video games apiece.

Additionally, Navarro had her first break level within the fifth sport – however after Swiatek saved it – the Pole went on to say back-to-back breaks and full her two-set win on a four-game run.

Through the match, the previous world No. 1 hit 22 winners, transformed 5-of-9 of her break level alternatives and solely confronted one break level – which she saved as talked about above.

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Other than that second early within the second set, there weren’t many openings or possibilities for the 23-year-old American, who was taking part in in her first quarterfinal at Melbourne Park.

Subsequent up for Swiatek will probably be one other American – world No. 14 Madison Keys – who beat Elina Svitolina in three units.

What Swiatek, Navarro mentioned following the match: 

“Honestly, I wasn’t going so deep in Grand Slams so much except Roland Garros,” the Polish star mentioned.

“For sure now I’m happy that I’m kind of playing my level here. Last year my journey here finished at fourth and third round, so for sure I feel more confident now.”

In the meantime, the American stored it straight sincere and admitted it was only a very powerful matchup.

“I think something she does really well is she’s really quick, and she does everything with 100 percent conviction and intensity,” Navarro mentioned. 

“She has a different style of movement and play. It’s tough to not be sort of affected by that and not feel like, okay, I have to do everything at the same speed that she’s doing it. So that was something, for sure, I felt a little bit today.”