Swiatek cruises into Miami Open semis

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 01, 2022 12:03 am

MIAMI: Iga Swiatek's dream season continued as she defeated Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-3 in the Miami Open quarterfinals to close in on a third successive WTA 1000 crown.

The new world number one won the title in Doha and then Indian Wells and now has an excellent chance of becoming only the fourth woman in history to win the Sunshine Double — triumphing in California and Florida in the same year — following Steffi Graf (1994 and 1996), Kim Clijsters (2005) and Victoria Azarenka (2016).

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