Iga Swiatek destroys Qinwen with brutal ‘Olympics’ reminder, seals revenge with Indian Wells victory: ‘Nothing personal’

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Iga Swiatek reigned supreme, cruising previous arch-rival Zheng Qinwen within the quarter-finals of the continuing Indian Wells, on Friday. Swiatek gained in straight units, securing a 6-3 6-3 win towards Qinwen, who beat her within the semi-finals of final 12 months’s Paris Olympics.

Iga Swiatek (R) shakes arms with Qinwen Zheng (L).(AFP)

Talking after the win, Swiatek was requested if her bronze medal in Paris 2024 served as a motivation towards her Chinese language opponent.

Iga Swiatek completes ‘Olympics’ revenge

In response, the Polish ace mentioned that the defeat served as a reminder and made her extra decided to win within the quarter-final.

“Yeah, for sure. For sure it does. I want to show myself and everybody that I can do it, and I already, you know, knew before the Olympics match, I know now, but yeah, it’s not nice to lose to anybody, so for sure you want to have a little, I don’t know, like revenge, but it’s nothing personal. I think every player has that against everybody who they lose before,” she mentioned.

Swiatek is the defending champion at Indian Wells, and after her victory within the quarter-finals, she grew to become the primary participant within the match’s historical past to achieve the semifinals 4 years in a row. The victory additionally noticed her bag her tenth consecutive win at Indian Wells.

Analysing the match, she added, “At the end, it got pretty windy, which made it super tricky. You need to adjust quickly and it’s not that easy. But I’m happy that I was pushing until the end. … I wanted to be composed and really focused, and I’m glad that I did that.”

Swiatek is the third participant to win her first 4 quarter-finals on the WTA 1000, after Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova. On this marketing campaign, she has solely dropped 12 video games, the joint-fewest of any participant who contested at the very least 4 matches to achieve that stage, together with Lindsay Davenport (2004), Justine Henin (2006) and Jelena Jankovic (2008).