{"id":10767,"date":"2025-07-03T18:24:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/iga-swiatek-fights-to-reach-the-third-round-at-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:24:46","slug":"iga-swiatek-fights-to-reach-the-third-round-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/iga-swiatek-fights-to-reach-the-third-round-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek fights to reach the third round at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wimbledon, England — Iga Sweet may not love grass, but she has shown fighting and bullish determination as she tasted the fight to the surface and beat American Catty McNally 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 and recovered to reach Wimbledon’s third round on Thursday.<\/p>\n

World No. 208 McNally looked poised to cause upset when he took away his way back from 4-1 to win his first set with the five-time Grand Slam champions.<\/p>\n

At that point, Sweet’s mediocre record at the All England club, which Paul never passed the quarterfinals, appeared to be weighing heavily on her shoulders.<\/p>\n

But rather than moving away from scrapping, the former world No. 1 appeared to flick the psychological switch where she came out for the second set, increasing her aggression and not being able to play with McNally.<\/p>\n

She broke early in the second set, never looking back, and lost three more games to set up Daniel Collins’ clash with another American.<\/p>\n

“I started the game well and I knew my game was there,” Swiatek said. “I knew at the start of the second set it had to be more accurate. I tried to improve it, but I’m happy it worked.”<\/p>\n

The eighth seed may set her vision much higher than in the third round, but reaching the final 32 she emphasized consistency on the big stage.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old is the third player of the century to reach the third round in 22 consecutive women’s singles grand slams after Amelie Mauresmo and Serena Williams.<\/p>\n

Also on Thursday, defending champion Barbora Krezikova was taken to three sets before Caroline d’Orhid 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 and 2022 Wimbledon winner Elena Raibakina defeated Maria Saccari 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n

No. 7 seed Mirra Andreeva and No. 10 Emma Navarro both went straight sets. The 18-year-old Andreva won a 6-1, 7-6 (4) victory over Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti, with Navarro cruised Veronica Cudermetova 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Zeynep Sonmez became the first Turkish player in his professional days, defeating Xinyu Wang 7-5, 7-5 to reach the third round of the Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n

Her name has four French open titles, the other in the US, with Swiatek’s apparent Wimbledon Records, appearing in two semi-finals in Australia, stands out like a thumbs up.<\/p>\n

While her run to the Bad Homburg Final at the Grass Court warm-up event showed that her game wasn’t entirely inappropriate on the surface, in her first set with McNally, you might have thought that this tournament wasn’t just for her.<\/p>\n

After breaking early and taking a 4-1 lead, the wheels temporarily escaped as McNally did everything to get Swiatek out of her comfort zone.<\/p>\n

The Americans received serves towards the baseline and worked for a while, trying to lessen the time to respond to the return to swiatek.<\/p>\n

McNally drove four breakpoints in his seventh match before finally seizing a chance on his fifth attempt before taking a 6-5 lead when Sweet swiped the length of his backhand.<\/p>\n

Everything seemed to be on the American path when Paul fired a wild forehand from the target and handed the opener to McNally. But that was as good as it got.<\/p>\n

Swiatek is well aware of McNally’s game – the pair were a young doubles partner, winning a junior title at Roland Garros in 2018, and ending up being demolished in double time.<\/p>\n

She took a 2-0 lead in the second set, and once again leveled the contest with one set each.<\/p>\n

Swiatek then did the same at the start of the third set, moving 2-0 and 2-0 on a swiped crosscoat in the forehand.<\/p>\n

It was easy for Paul then, but he had to save five breakpoints before closing the victory with an ace.<\/p>\n

As well as gaining her spot in the next round, the match with her old performance partner provided an incredible trip through Memory Lane.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty funny because I remember these games pretty well,” she said of Junior Days.<\/p>\n

“We know each other well… She’s one of those people who not only are you a rival on tour, but also make you feel like you respect each other and like each other.”<\/p>\n

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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