World No 1 Iga Swiatek and Belinda Bencic faced off in a long and intense match, during which Swiatek saved two match points and emerged as the victor. Meanwhile, Victoria Azarenka, from Belarus, experienced a disappointing defeat against Elina Svitolina from Ukraine in a dramatic fourth-round contest, which led to a negative reaction from the crowd.
World No 1 Iga Swiatek had a tough match against Belinda Bencic in the Wimbledon quarter-finals. Swiatek managed to survive two match points and ultimately won the match. This marks Swiatek’s first time reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
Swiatek was in a difficult position when she was 15-40 down at 6-5 in the second set. However, she showed great skill and determination by hitting two impressive winners, which completely changed the course of the match.
Naomi Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam champion, faced tough competition from Olympic gold medallist Belinda Bencic in a thrilling third set. After an intense match that lasted three hours, Osaka emerged victorious with a score of 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 on Centre Court.
Swiatek’s recent victory at the All England Club sent her to the quarterfinals for the first time. With her previous junior title win at SW19, she is now moving forward with renewed confidence, believing that this could be her year on her least preferred surface.
Top seed Swiatek faced a challenge in her match against Bencic. Despite her previous strong performances, she encountered difficulties early on, leading to a medical time-out after just three games due to a blister.
French Open winner, [Player] retained control until Bencic reversed the situation in the tie-break.
Bencic saved two set points in the 10th game before clinching the first set after 66 minutes.
Swiatek left the court determined to avoid another early exit in England. She earned a break with a sweet forehand return in the opening game. Bencic, the Tokyo 2020 champion, showed determination and broke back to level the score at 3-3. She had a chance to win the match when she was 15-40 up at 6-5.
Faced with losing at Wimbledon in the fourth round again, Swiatek came out swinging, producing equally brilliant forehand and backhand winners before repeating the trick to take the second tie-break.
If Swiatek thought she had worn down Bencic’s armour, she initially appeared to be wrong with the Swiss right-hander able to force another break point chance early in the third.
However after Swiatek dug deep to hold again, the resistance was finally broken with back-to-back double faults by the 14th seed.
More drama was to follow with Swiatek going 0-30 down when serving for the match, but she responded in style with two passing forehand winners sealing her spot in the last-eight.
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