{"id":416983,"date":"2023-02-22T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416983"},"modified":"2023-02-22T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:59:35","slug":"dominant-swiatek-storms-into-quarter-finals-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dominant-swiatek-storms-into-quarter-finals-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Swiatek storms into quarter-finals in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Iga Swiatek maintained her strong start at the WTA Dubai on Wednesday, dispatching Russia&#8217;s Liudmila Samsonova 6-1, 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flawless. Again.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iga_swiatek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@iga_swiatek<\/a> defeats Samsonova 6-1, 6-0 to reach the last eight in Dubai.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DDFTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DDFTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nahSBP2TWW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nahSBP2TWW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1628377522256871425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Swiatek&#8217;s victory followed her opening 6-1, 6-1 win over Leylah Fernandez. The Pole has dropped only eight games in her last six matches, a stretch which saw her lift the Doha title last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek will take on former Dubai finalist Karolina Pliskova in Thursday\u2019s quarter-finals, having beaten the Czech in their only previous match-up, a 6-0, 6-0 rout in the 2021 Italian Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Pliskova booked her place in the top eight with a 7-5, 6-7 (6\/8), 6-2 victory over Ukraine\u2019s Anhelina Kalinina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Iga Swiatek maintained her strong start at the WTA Dubai on Wednesday, dispatching Russia&#8217;s Liudmila Samsonova 6-1, 6-0 to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416984,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16763,17460],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Pole cruised past Russia's Samsonova","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\/416983"}],"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=416983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416983"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416983"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}