Iga Swiatek reached the Wimbledon semi-finals with a 6-2, 7-5 victory at 19-seeded Liudmila Samsonova, who had five of those Grand Slam titles appearing at the French Open Red Clay, reaching the Wimbledon semi-finals in the late Wednesday, with a 6-2, 7-5 victory at 19-seeded Liudmila Samsonova, who had a little struggle from a walk to a bit.
Eighth seed Swiatek will become the fourth active female player to reach the semi-finals of the fourth major, joining Aryna Sabalenka, Victoria Azarenka and Karolina Pliskova.
Swiatek scored all his first serve points in the opening set against Samsonova, who was appearing in the first Grand Slam quarterfinals, leading 3-0 against Samsonova for the second time. But soon, it was 4-All and 5-All in the second set. However, Swiatek took the lead 6-5 and ended it and broke, with a smile spreading across her face.
“Even though I was in the middle of the tournament, I already got the goose bump after this victory,” Swiatek said. “I’m very happy and I’m extremely proud of myself.”
The All England Club Lawn Court was giving her the most trouble professionally despite winning the junior championship in 2018. She only won the quarter final once when she appeared on Wimbledon’s Women’s Bracket five times before this year, and was in that round in 2023.
However, the 24-year-old from Poland enjoys a career-best run on smooth surfaces thanks to being more familiar with the scaffolding he needs.
“It certainly feels like I’ve worked really hard to advance here on this surface,” Sweet said. “So this year I feel I can work with it and work with myself. I’m continuing to do that.”
Before the start of Wimbledon, Swiatek was runner-up at Bad Homburg in Germany, her first final in the tournament in Grass and her first final in the event in more than a year, drought caused her to drop out of the No. 1 rankings to 8th place.
This included a semi-final loss against Sabalenka at Roland Garos last month, bringing an end to Swiatek’s 26-match French Open victory streak.
Since its launch in 2023, Swiatek has won 17 of his last 20 matches at Grass. This is after I went 6-5 on tour level with Grass Court Play before that.
“We saw how we could play on the practice court, and we didn’t know if we could do that in the match court,” Swiatek said. “I’ve already done it. I’m going to try and keep doing it.”
Swiatek, who won the US Open in 2022, always wants to be the eighth woman to win major titles on hard courts, clays and glasses.
Standing between her and the title match at the All-England Club is Belinda Vensik, who will also appear in her first Wimbledon semi-finals.
“I’m recovering today. Don’t celebrate too much, but I’m already focusing on the following,” Swiatek said. “Prepare it in the evening. You’ll be ready tomorrow.”
Along with potential final opponents, No. 1 Sabalenka, Swiatek reached the semi-final round this year at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. It was in 2006 that several women finally competed in the semifinals in each of the first three majors (Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters).
ESPN research and Associated Press contributed to this report.
