{"id":457242,"date":"2023-08-28T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457242"},"modified":"2023-08-28T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:20:07","slug":"swiatek-destroys-peterson-in-the-us-open-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/swiatek-destroys-peterson-in-the-us-open-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek destroys Peterson in the US Open opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek, world number 1, dominated in her 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the US Open as she trashed world number 86, Rebecca Peterson, 2-0 sets (6:0, 6:1), and advanced to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round at the Big Slam tournament in New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Swiatek d. Peterson 6-0 6-1<\/p>\n<p>In true Iga fashion, she kicks off her title defense with a bagel &amp; a breadstick<\/p>\n<p>Her knack for lopsided sets is not a knock on her opponents at all<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s proof of how perfected &amp; clean her highest level is.<\/p>\n<p>\u27058 match US Open win streak<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YxC4gITLdy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YxC4gITLdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1696209301327724892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Polish tennis player closed the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-0 for only 25 minutes. The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set started 1-1 games, but after that Iga won 5 straight games to close the set 6-1 and the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">41 &#8211; Iga Swiatek (41, 22 in 2022 and 19 in 2023) is the first player since 1991-1992 to win more than 40 sets 6-0 in a two-years span (Monica Seles and Steffi Graf). Bully.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen2023<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usopen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_insider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA_insider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G7JammA2zB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/G7JammA2zB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1696200507763704155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A journalist asked her about her level of play in the post-match interview, and she answered that she was happy to get such a swift victory. Swiatek shared that she enjoyed her time on the court in today\u2019s match. World number 1 added that her focus is 100% on playing her game and trying to defend her title in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">66 &#8211; Iga Swiatek is the player with the most Women&#8217;s Singles Grand Slam wins after her first 80 such matches (66) among players who played their maiden Major match this century. Marching. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen2023<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usopen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_insider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA_insider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/23jz5sMkjr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/23jz5sMkjr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1696208997865635892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Swiatek will face world number 322, Daria Saville, at the 1\/32 finals at the US Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek, world number 1, dominated in her 1st match at the US Open as she trashed world number 86, Rebecca Peterson, 2-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":457243,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16763,18069,4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18372,21166,18071,1891],"acf":{"announce":"Iga won in straight sets and gave her opponent only 1 game.","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\/457242"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457245,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457242\/revisions\/457245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457242"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457242"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}