{"id":415923,"date":"2023-02-18T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415923"},"modified":"2023-02-18T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T21:41:01","slug":"swiatek-sweeps-past-pegula-to-win-doha-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/swiatek-sweeps-past-pegula-to-win-doha-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Swiatek sweeps past Pegula to win Doha title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number 1 Iga Swiatek won the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha with a commanding 6-3, 6-0 win over second seed American Jessica Pegula in the final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sensational IGA \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1<\/p>\n<p>The moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iga_swiatek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@iga_swiatek<\/a> captured her 12th WTA title!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QatarTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P3DzMbQgGW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/P3DzMbQgGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1626982216147562496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pole, who lost just five games during the tournament, captured her 12th WTA title and defended the title she won last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BACK2BACK IN DOHA \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iga_swiatek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@iga_swiatek<\/a> defends her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QatarTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@QatarTennis<\/a> title, seeing off Pegula 6-3, 6-0! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QatarTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FsCo6GOFL3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FsCo6GOFL3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1626981013774643204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Her triumph in Doha in 2022 kickstarted her epic 37-match winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure the bye helped\u2026honestly, I don\u2019t care how many games I won or lost, I feel like I really found my rhythm here after a tough beginning of the season,\u201d Swiatek said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could stay focused from the beginning to the end of the matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek became the first player to defend a WTA Tour singles title since she won her second straight Rome title in May of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Swiatek will also compete at the 1000er in Dubai next week. There she will meet either Leylah Fernandez or Julia Grabher after a bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number 1 Iga Swiatek won the Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha with a commanding 6-3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415925,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17133],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Pole dropped just five games over the course of the week","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415923"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415923"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}