{"id":427537,"date":"2023-02-25T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427537"},"modified":"2023-02-25T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:16:26","slug":"krejcikova-stuns-swiatek-to-win-wta-dubai","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/krejcikova-stuns-swiatek-to-win-wta-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Krejcikova stuns Swiatek to win WTA Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Republic Barbora Krejcikova completed a dream week at WTA Dubai on Saturday night, defeating world number one Iga Swiatek, 6-4, 6-2 in 91 minutes to capture her first WTA title of the year, and the sixth of her career.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Roland Garros winner is also the first player to beat Swiatek twice since she rose to No. 1 on the WTA rankings last April, having also beaten the Polish trailblazer in the final of Ostrava last October, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Krejcikova became just the fifth woman in WTA rankings history to beat No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 at the same event &#8211; she defeated No. 2-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and No. 3-ranked Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals and semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s win marked Krejcikova&#8217;s fourth win over a Top 10 player this week. That feat began in the second round, where the Czech had to save four match points against World No.8 Daria Kasatkina of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Following her latest exploits, Krejcikova is projected to ascend from World No.30 to World No.16 in Monday\u2019s updated singles rankings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I have so much respect for you, for what you doing&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Barbora Krejcikova to Iga Swiatek <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tpuc5zC50g\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tpuc5zC50g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marty (fan) (@Svitoflopina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Svitoflopina\/status\/1629527155506921474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Republic Barbora Krejcikova completed a dream week at WTA Dubai on Saturday night, defeating world number one Iga Swiatek, 6-4, 6-2 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17766,16763,17340],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"She became just the fifth woman in WTA rankings history to beat No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 at same tournament","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\/427537"}],"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=427537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427537"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427537"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}