Improving iga swiatek

Improving Iga Swiatek: Despite still not being at her absolute best, six-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek made it to the third round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 6-3 second-round victory over 2021 runner-up Karolina Pliskova at the All-England Club in London on Thursday.

Though the scoreline on Thursday looked a lot more assured than in the previous round, it was an improvement for the defending champion on the difficulties of her opener against Taylor Townsend on Tuesday. On Thursday, the former World No.1 from Poland did not concede a set, and there were also no juddering tears of relief. It helped that the pre-match danger threatened by Pliskova’s career-long grass-court smarts materialised only fleetingly.

It was also a big relief for Swiatek as she held break points in every Pliskova service game. Still, the Pole stacked up 18 unforced errors in this match, at times in unseemly clumps. Any repeat in upcoming rounds could create a disaster, with the quality of opposition improving in the upcoming rounds.