{"id":234735,"date":"2025-08-20T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/swiatek-defeats-paolini-to-win-wta-cincinnati-open-title\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:20:19","slug":"swiatek-defeats-paolini-to-win-wta-cincinnati-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/swiatek-defeats-paolini-to-win-wta-cincinnati-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek Defeats Paolini To Win WTA Cincinnati Open Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiatek Defeats Paolini To Win WTA Cincinnati Open Title<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iga Swiatek filled in a piece of her career tennis\u00a0puzzle on Monday as she won the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open for the first time with a 7-5, 6-4 defeat of Jasmine Paolini.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final, lasting for just under two hours, featured 16 break-point chances, with the Polish winner converting on six of 10 while Paolini struggled to make the most of her break opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Grand Slam singles champion\u2019s 11th career win at the WTA 1000 level has left her within striking distance of the all-time record of 13 titles held by Serena Williams. Swiatek won the Cincinnati without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always tough in Cincy,\u201d Swiatek told the Tennis Channel after her maiden win in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives me a boost of confidence. \u201cI\u2019m happy with the work we\u2019ve been doing. (The team) had to convince me to play in a different way. I\u2019m now happy with that process; it all feels even better after the match. I\u201dm glad I finished in straight sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old backed\u00a0up her breakthrough Wimbledon trophy\u00a0with the Midwest honours and now heads to the last Grand Slam of the season\u00a0at the US Open with a major confidence boost after the 24th title of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek is due to partner Norway\u2019s Casper Ruud in the US Open\u2019s revamped mixed doubles starting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pole said she is relishing that challenge on the slower courts of Flushing Meadows. \u201cI\u2019m a good player. I can play on any\u00a0surface,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u00a0are slowing down the courts\u00a0every year, kind of,so I\u2019m not sure how it is now\u00a0there.\u00a0But\u00a0tennis is all about adjusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek also climbed to within 500 points of current WTA number one Aryna Sabalenka, with the lead at the top of the table likely to be in play at the Open when it begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek had stalled twice at the last two editions at the semi-final stage and now has only the Canadian tournament where she has not reached the final at a 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was tough, we were both tight, but that happens in a final,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cI was glad to close it out in the end. \u201cNot everything was perfect, but mentally I was there to play my best tennis. We did a lot of mental work. I was really composed and consistent about how I thought about my game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek began on the wrong foot as she lost serve to trail 0-3. But the situation was only temporary as the former number one immediately began her turnaround.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_951594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951594\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-951594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP__20250819__2230886032__v1__MidRes__CincinnatiOpen2025Day12-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP__20250819__2230886032__v1__MidRes__CincinnatiOpen2025Day12-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP__20250819__2230886032__v1__MidRes__CincinnatiOpen2025Day12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP__20250819__2230886032__v1__MidRes__CincinnatiOpen2025Day12-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP__20250819__2230886032__v1__MidRes__CincinnatiOpen2025Day12.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-951594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Paolini of Italy poses with her Rookwood Cup after her match against Iga Swiatek of Poland during the women\u2019s final of the Cincinnati Open at Lindner Family Tennis Centre on August 18, 2025, in Mason, Ohio. (Photo by MATTHEW STOCKMAN \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pole answered immediately\u00a0with two breaks of serve and moved to a 5-3 lead<\/p>\n<p>But Paolini earned another break in the 10th game, saving a Swiatek set point to square the final at five-all.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini dropped serve for 5-6, giving her opponent\u00a0the chance to produce a love game and claim the opener 7-5 after just under an hour on court.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was a roller coaster, with the pair twice swapping breaks of serve before Swiatek salvaged a pair of break points to lead 5-3 and then serving out the winner two games later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iga Swiatek,WTA<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/19\/swiatek-defeats-paolini-to-win-wta-cincinnati-open-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiatek Defeats Paolini To Win WTA Cincinnati Open Title \u00a0 \u00a0 Iga Swiatek filled in a piece of her career tennis\u00a0puzzle on Monday as she won the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open for the first time with a 7-5, 6-4 defeat of Jasmine Paolini. The final, lasting for just under two hours, featured 16 break-point chances, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1698,1699],"class_list":["post-234735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-wta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}