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American Emma Navarro upsets top-seeded Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek in China

American Emma Navarro upset top-seeded Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 win in the fourth round of the China Open on Wednesday.

Navarro, seeded 16th, had not won more than three games in two previous matches against Swiatek, who put in an erratic performance and lost a love set for the third time this season.

Also, Sonay Kartal produced the biggest victory of her career by defeating Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals. It is the first time Kartal has beaten a top-10 player and the first time she has reached the last eight at a WTA 1000 event.

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“I think the way I carry myself on the court is one of my biggest assets. You could look down the other end at me and you wouldn’t really know if I’m winning or losing,” Kartal said. “I just tried to put that second set behind me. She played some great tennis, so I just tried to level it out in the third set and keep the scoreboard pressure as high as I could.”

Fifth-seeded Jessica Pegula was playing Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine, and second-seeded Coco Gauff has already qualified for the quarterfinals, which she is scheduled to play against Eva Lys on Thursday.

Jannik Sinner, playing the concurrent men’s tournament in Beijing, won the China Open title by beating American teenager Learner Tien 6-2, 6-2.

The Associated Press and PA contributed to this report.

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Iga Swiatek says the tennis season is too long and too intense

Six-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek said she might have to miss mandatory tournaments to protect her health following a string of injuries among players at the China Open.

The world number two from Poland reached the last 16 in Beijing after her Colombian opponent Camila Osorio retired hurt before the second set, with Swiatek winning the first 6-0.

That was one of five matches to not be played to a finish in China on Monday with Lois Boisson and Zheng Qinwen also suffering injuries on court, while Lorenzo Musetti and Jakub Mensik retired from their matches in the men’s tournament.

Starting last year, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) made it mandatory for top players to participate in each Grand Slam, 10 WTA 1,000 events – including Beijing – and six 500-level tournaments.

But Swiatek, 24, warned she may have to take breaks to protect herself.

“It’s just impossible to squeeze it in the schedule,” the former world number one said. “Maybe I will have to choose some tournaments and skip them, even though they are mandatory.

“We have to be smart about it – not really unfortunately care about the rules and just think what’s healthy for us.”

The amount of matches in the tennis calendar has been a major talking point in recent years, with players such as Novak Djokovic cutting back the number of tournaments they compete in as they near the end of their career.

Swiatek called the requirements “pretty crazy” for top players, adding that “people are more fatigued” in the second half of the season.

“I don’t know yet how my career is going to look like in a couple of years,” she added. “The only thing I can do now, when I decided I’m going to play all these mandatory tournaments, is to just take care of my body, take care of the recovery.

“The Asian swing is the hardest part because you feel like the season is going to finish soon, but you still need to push.

“But yeah, there are a lot of injuries. It is because the season is too long and too intense.”

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Iga Swiatek wins 400th career match, advances at China Open

Sep 29, 2025, 06:27 AM ET

BEIJING — Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek, on Monday, defeated Camila Osorio for her 400th career win and advanced to the fourth round at the China Open.

Swiatek, who became the first player to register 25 or more wins at WTA-1000 events for three consecutive seasons with her straight sets victory of Yuan Yue in the third round, showed no signs of slowing down as she dismantled her Colombian opponent 6-0 in the first set, before Osorio retired from the match in the opening game of the second set.

Osorio took a medical time-out. Then, after serving a double fault to fall behind 0-40 in the opening game of the second set, she was forced to withdraw.

“For sure, I’m sorry for Camila, because she’s always giving her 100%,” Swiatek said. “She told me she got injured at the beginning of the match. It’s always pretty sad to see that because we want to just compete. She wasn’t able to. But overall, like besides that, I feel like I played good in the first set and really used my game to push Camila.”

Top-seeded Swiatek, who won last week’s Korea Open in Seoul, has also won the French Open four times and the U.S. Open once among her six Grand Slam singles titles, next plays American Emma Navarro.

In earlier third-round matches Monday, fourth-seeded Mirra Andreeva beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-1 and Marta Kostyuk beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 6-2. Navarro was leading Lois Boisson 6-2, 1-0 when the French player retired from the match.

Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek overcomes serving errors to win Korea Open title

Sep 21, 2025, 09:08 AM ET

SEOUL, South Korea — Top-seeded Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek overcame a poor first set to beat No. 2-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 and win the Korea Open on Sunday.

ÅšwiÄ…tek dropped her own serve five times, was edged out 6-2 in aces, had nine double-faults and even won fewer points than Alexandrova during a tight contest at Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center lasting close to three hours.

Even ÅšwiÄ…tek could not believe how she did it.

“First of all, I want to congratulate Ekaterina for an amazing week and an amazing final,” said the No. 2-ranked ÅšwiÄ…tek. “Honestly, I don’t know how I won it because you were playing great and I just tried to stay alive.”

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She praised the performance of No. 11-ranked Alexandrova, who came out blazing to take the first set in 30 minutes.

“Hopefully we’re going to play more finals because it’s always tough against you,” ÅšwiÄ…tek said. “But it’s also entertaining.”

ÅšwiÄ…tek’s vast experience saw her through. It was the six-time Grand Slam champion’s third title of the year and 25th overall. The 24-year-old Pole won the Cincinnati Open title last month and clinched her first Wimbledon title in July.

She improved to 25-5 overall in WTA finals and chalked off a personal milestone.

“I’m happy that I could win here because of the family history,” she said. “My dad couldn’t win the Olympics [here], but at least I won this tournament. So hopefully he’s going to come next year to enjoy everything.”

Tomasz ÅšwiÄ…tek, her father, competed as a rower for Poland at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.

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