{"id":42121,"date":"2026-08-11T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42121"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:14:21","slug":"swiatek-sweeps-into-canadian-open-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/swiatek-sweeps-into-canadian-open-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek sweeps into Canadian Open semifinals\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Former world number one,\u00a0Iga\u00a0Swiatek\u00a0of Poland, swept past Russia&#8217;s Diana\u00a0Shnaider\u00a06-2, 6-1 to advance\u00a0to\u00a0the semifinals of the Canadian Open tennis tournament in Toronto.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>She will square off against\u00a0Elina\u00a0Svitolina\u00a0of Ukraine who rallied past Russian, Ekaterina\u00a0Alexandrova, in three sets.Swiatek\u00a0is rediscovering the form that brought her six Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>So far, she&#8217;s only dropped one set the entire tournament, a confidence boosting display ahead of the United States (US) Open.Swiatek\u00a0has one US open under her belt which she won in 2022 at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Svitolina\u00a0had to work much harder in her quarter final, she lost the opening set and then came storming back in the second taking it six-love and continued the momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova, who knocked out world number one Aryna\u00a0Sabalenka\u00a0earlier, failed to regain momentum, and\u00a0Svitolina\u00a0wrapped up the match 6-3 in the final set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Swiatek\u00a0leads the head-to-head count against\u00a0Svitolina\u00a0while the Ukrainian has won the last meeting between the two.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42123,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-42121","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Former world number one,\u00a0Iga\u00a0Swiatek\u00a0of Poland","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42128,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42121\/revisions\/42128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}