Iga Świątek was eliminated in the semifinals of the WTA 1000 hard court tournament in Cincinnati. The Pole lost to Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka 3:6, 3:6.
There was a tournament in Cincinnati the first after the Paris Olympic Games, in which Iga Świątek participated. However, in the semi-final against the 26-year-old from Minsk, the player three years Raszyn’s junior didn’t have much to say. In the second set, she saved nine match points, but Sabalenka had already taken advantage of the tenth.
This was the twelfth fight between a Polish woman and a Belarusian woman. The fourth victory was achieved by the latter.
Sabalenka’s final rival will be selected by the second semi-final between American Jessica Pegula and Spanish Paula Badosa.
