Iga Svetek in pursuit of Serena Williams. Three months of opportunity and hope

The 2023 season is not going well for Idze Świątek. Of course she is not weak, she won Roland Garros for the third time, but she performed worse in Grand Slam tournaments on other courts. At the Australian Open and US Open She was eliminated in the fourth roundHowever, she defended the title in New York. The Polish woman also failed to break the Wimbledon spell, losing in the quarter-finals.

However, in one of the statistics, they are on an equal level, that is, in the so-called bagel, that is, winning sets without losing any matches. As tennisuptodate.com noted, there were twenty of them this year (22 last year), including two at the US Open against Kai Govan and Rebecca Peterson.

The Pole also made many so-called breadsticks, so the victories are in a ratio of 6:1. However, bread is the most famous, and in the 21st century holds the record for the largest number of them in a given season. Serena Williams (25 in 2013). The current runner-up in the WTA rankings therefore has three months in which to overtake the American. She is the all-time record holder Steffi Graf (Up to 35 in 1989).

If the 22-year-old wants to match Williams’ score, she can’t play at this level Like Wednesday with Mai Hontama, in which she lost as many as nine games in two tiring sets. She committed as many as 41 unforced errors. On Friday, she will face Weronika Kudermetwa in the quarterfinals in Tokyo.