Swiatek prepared for one more shot at title as semis loom
Breaks have showed up in Iga Swiatek's defensive layer in her last two French Open matches, however it is still difficult to see past the Polish world No 1 as the hot #1 at Roland Garros as she prepares for her elimination round in Paris.
The 21-year-old Swiatek has dominated 33 matches in succession and would it be advisable for her she see off Russian Daria Kasatkina on Thursday she will match Serena Williams' triumphant run from 2013.
The 2020 boss, hoping to turn out to be just the fourth lady to lift the Suzanne Lenglen Cup at least a couple of times starting around 2000 - after Serena Williams, Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova - has dropped one set and showed a few early nerves in the quarterfinals.
In any case, she has all the earmarks of being in another association tennis-wise, and Kasaktina, who has a strong forehand and a solid gauge game, should be intellectually extreme and find a way other than through groundstrokes to lose the Pole course.
Kasatkina, 25, will play in her most memorable significant elimination rounds and appears to like her possibilities regardless of having lost each of the three of her matches against Swiatek this year in straight sets.
"We played not many times this year, yet I mean OK, I lost those matches, however that was an alternate story. It was a hard court, start of the year, I was not in a similar shape as I am currently," she said.
"So I can't contrast what we are going with have tomorrow and what we had in February, March when we were playing. So being something else entirely is going."
One thing is sure: Kasatkina should be prepared from the primary point.
"I sort of need to begin all along and perhaps exploit what I have some familiarity with her game," said Swiatek.
"The primary key for me is to simply play my tennis and play forcefully and attempt to rule all along."
In the other elimination round, American eighteenth seed Coco Gauff, who has been developing into a strong claycourt player, faces Italian Martina Trevisan.
Gauff, 18, was come by possible hero Barbora Krejcikova in the quarterfinals last year and she is adopting an alternate strategy this time.
"I feel like last year I was taking a gander at the end goal, and presently I'm not seeing anything truly with the exception of that ball before me," Gauff said.
"So I remember frankly, going into the following match I'm about to move toward it the equivalent. That is to say, I care about the outcomes, indeed, yet additionally simultaneously I don't. Like in the event that I gave it my all I won't be vexed."
The unseeded Trevisan came to the quarterfinals in 2020, where she lost to Swiatek, and she will currently hope to copy her kindred Italians Francesca Schiavone and Sara Errani, finalists in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Schiavone brought home the championship in 2010