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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2021 5:53:40 GMT
Coco Gauff vs. Belinda Bencic | 2021 Adelaide Semifinals | WTA Match Highlights
A rollercoaster semifinal at the Adelaide International saw No.2 seed Belinda Bencic quell qualifier Coco Gauff 7-6(2), 6-7(4), 6-2 in two hours and 37 minutes despite missing a match point in the second set.
In a contest full of seesawing momentum shifts, the Swiss player had won the first set from 1-4 down and lost the second set from 4-1 up, having held a match point at 5-3. However, she made a strong recovery in the decider and this time did not loosen her grip to book her place in her 11th career final, and first since Moscow 2019. Bencic will face No.5 seed Iga Swiatek for the first time with the title on the line.
"I'm very proud of myself that I handled this match after all the ups and downs," said Bencic afterwards. "It's always a mix of relief and joy."
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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2021 19:31:00 GMT
Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek is back in the winner's circle, capturing her second career title at the Adelaide International with a dominant 6-2, 6-2 defeat of No.2 seed Belinda Bencic in just 62 minutes. Swiatek was near-flawless throughout, striking 22 winners and committing a meagre six unforced errors - three in each set. The Pole conceded only six points behind her delivery winning a career best 90.9% of her first serve points (20 out of 22), and was not taken to deuce in any of her own service games. The result caps a stellar week for Swiatek, who did not drop a set on the way to the trophy - the first WTA title run without the loss of a set since her own Roland Garros route last October. There, the 19-year-old conceded 28 games in seven matches (four per match); this week, she lost 22 games in five matches (4.4 per match). As a result, Swiatek will rise to a new career high of World No.15 on Monday. "For sure, there is something that clicks," mused Swiatek on the scale of her dominance during her title runs. "Not only in my head but also tennis-wise. I feel pretty good on court. I feel like sometimes I have weeks when everything clicks, and that's just the effect of the work we're doing."
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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2021 22:08:03 GMT
I. Swiatek vs. B. Bencic | 2021 Adelaide Final | WTA Match Highlights
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Post by Admin on Feb 28, 2021 4:43:51 GMT
H. Carter/L. Stefani vs. A. Guarachi/D. Krawczyk | 2021 Adelaide Doubles Final | WTA Match Highlight
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Post by Admin on Feb 28, 2021 21:08:15 GMT
My Performance: Swiatek talks about winning the 2021 Adelaide Title “I’ve never actually experienced playing a final with a full stadium,” Iga Swiatek said after her 6-2, 6-2 win over Belinda Bencic in the final of the Adelaide International on Saturday. By now, the pandemic has gone on long enough that it’s the packed arenas, rather than the empty ones, that seem weird for the players. That goes double for someone as young as Swiatek. The 19-year-old Warsaw native won her only other title inside a mostly deserted Court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros last year. But she didn’t seem to have any trouble adjusting to the energy that the Australian spectators brought to the court this weekend. According to Swiatek, the noisier they became as the match went on, the more confident she was that she was destined to win it. “Especially on the changeovers, when I heard all the fans screaming, I felt in my body that the match is going to come to an end,” Swiatek said. “I was just trying to cool down and just do the same as I was doing.” The presence of fans wasn’t the only difference between Swiatek’s two triumphs. In Paris, she played on her favorite surface, clay, and on the game’s biggest stage, a Grand Slam final. In Adelaide, she played on hard courts, in a mid-level WTA event. While her second title obviously doesn’t have the prestige of her first, Swiatek treated it as a test of almost equal importance. Yes, she wants to win the big ones, but she wants to win the small ones, too. “It was my goal from the beginning of the season. I want to be, like, more consistent player, just play good week by week,” Swiatek said. “It’s good for me because I can see that I can play good tennis for the whole week. It wasn’t like one time during the French Open. It gives me more confidence that I’m, like, more developed player and I can play good more often. I’m really happy about that.”
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