{"id":476118,"date":"2024-01-16T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476118"},"modified":"2024-01-16T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:00:35","slug":"swiatek-wins-opening-australian-open-game-vs-kenin","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/swiatek-wins-opening-australian-open-game-vs-kenin\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek wins opening Australian Open game vs. Kenin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek, world number 1, won against world number 41, Sofia Kenin, in a match from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round at the Grand Slam in Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Swiatek d. Sofia Kenin 7-6(2) 6-2 at the Australian Open<\/p>\n<p>Iga has dropped only 2 sets in her last 17 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Back to playing spotless tennis &amp; racking up wins like they\u2019re candy.<\/p>\n<p>\u270517 match winning streak<br \/>\n\u27056-0 in 2024<\/p>\n<p>The hunt for her 5th Grand Slam is on.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3SCrE1DRcd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3SCrE1DRcd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1747093421125509473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Swiatek started the match poorly as she lost her 2<sup>nd<\/sup> serve in the clash and allowed Kenin to lead 3-1 games, but the world number 1 tied it 3-3. Swiatek lost her serve again, and Sofia led 5-4, but when the American was serving for the 1st set, Iga broke her serve and tied the game again.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> set was decided after a tiebreak as the Polish tennis player dominated and won it 7-2 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, things were a lot easier for Swiatek as she converted 2 break points from 4 opportunities to win the set 6-2 and, with that, the match in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Iga will play in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of the Australian Open against Danielle Collins or Angelique Kerber.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Iga Swiatek on beating Sofia Kenin in Australian Open R1:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell I\u2019m really happy. It\u2019s not easy to play the first round, especially the 1st slam of the season. It wasn\u2019t easy at the beginning to find my rhythm. I felt a bit off &amp; I feel like Sofia really did everything to keep\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWJjPzsKiU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gWJjPzsKiU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1747100466461442345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek, world number 1, won against world number 41, Sofia Kenin, in a match from the 1st round at the Grand Slam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[5443,16763,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[2469,18372,22557,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Iga triumphed despite the difficult 1st set.","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\/476118"}],"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=476118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476123,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476118\/revisions\/476123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476118"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476118"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}