World primary Iga Swiatek survived a scare to defeat Jule Niemeier and attain the quarter-finals of the US Open for the primary time.
The Pole trailed by a set and a break to German Niemeier, who confirmed her potential by reaching the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in simply her second predominant draw look at a grand slam.
Swiatek has not been in nice kind since her 37-match unbeaten run was ended by Alize Cornet at Wimbledon, and he or she made loads of errors once more right here.
But the world primary fought arduous to realize the ascendancy within the second set and dominated the third to win 2-6 6-4 6-0.
Swiatek mentioned: “I’m just proud that I didn’t lose hope because she was playing really good in the first set. I’m pretty glad that I used my experience to keep the same kind of level throughout the whole match.”
In the quarter-finals Swiatek will face American Jessica Pegula, who is thru to the final eight at a slam for the third time this season following a 6-3 6-2 victory over Petra Kvitova.
Pegula is a part of a well-known American sporting household, along with her mother and father Terry and Kim Pegula the house owners of NFL crew the Buffalo Bills and NHL crew the Buffalo Sabres.
She is having fun with the additional help that brings, saying: “It’s definitely different playing overseas, I feel people don’t make the connection as often as they do here.
“There is a lot of people from Buffalo that are kind of all over the place, you always find somebody that’s a Bills and Sabres fan.
“And to me I think I have more embraced it and find it fun and cool that these people, because there’s not a lot of tennis in Buffalo, know nothing about tennis but they will come and watch the match in Cincinnati or here or wherever, just because they are a fan of the teams.”
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk