The title holder, Iga Swiatek bowed this Thursday in the semi-final of the WTA 1000 from Madrid against Coco Gauff in two sets (6-1, 6-1)
The title of the title of the WTA 1000 of Madrid, Iga Swiatek (world N.2), was eliminated Thursday from the semi-finals, dominated by Coco Gauff (4th) in two sets 6-1, 6-1. Just over three weeks from Roland-Garros (May 25-June 8), where she is triple winner, the 23-year-old Polish was unable to face the American, who swept her in just over an hour on the Madrid clay.
Finalist in the last two editions in Madrid, Swiatek gave easy points to Gauff, who did not give him gifts on his service (seven Aces). At 5-1 in the first set, after a white game and two Aces of Gauff, the Polish offered two break balls on direct faults. A sign of her frustration in the game, the Polish struck with her racket a ball on the ground after a new fault.
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The diagram remained the same at the start of the second set. Gauff has Breaké Swiatek on her first put into play. At 3-0, the Polish spent the minute of interruption during the change of the head flanked under her towel. Led 15-40, a new double-faut allowed the American to lead 4-0. Swiatek managed to win a game to return to 5-1 but Gauff finished the match with a white game and two Aces.
In search of a 23rd title which is slow to come since his fourth coronation in Roland-Garros in June 2024, Swiatek remained on two consecutive defeats against Gauff, in United Cup in January and the WTA Final in November. Coco Gauff reaches her 3rd final on clay, after Parma in 2021 (sacred) and Roland-Garros 2022, where she had lost against Swiatek. The American will defy in the Aryna Sabalenka final, world N.1, or the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina (17th), who compete Thursday evening on the central court.
