Swiatek's struggles make it anybody's game on red clay
Mumbai, May 24 -- The highlights from Iga Swiatek's last match go by in a blur. Particularly those of the 'breadstick' she was handed in the first set.
In the last few years that the 23-year-old has dominated the women's tour, the 'Swiatek Bakery' has become common parlance in tennis. She has handed out bagels and breadsticks (winning sets 6-0 and 6-1 respectively) almost at will. Consider this: from the start of the 2022 season till a week before last year's French Open, Swiatek had won a set 6-0 or 6-1 in 49 percent of her matches.
But on Court Centrale at Foro Italico in Rome, nearly a fortnight ago, she was beaten 6-1, 7-5 by Danielle Collins in the third round of the Italian Open, where she was the defending champion.
Swiatek has been ...
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