Iga Swiatek survived a scare against Diana Shnaider to reach the quarter-finals of the 2025 Madrid Open, and her latest win has brought more impressive statistics.<\/p>\n
The five-time major champion prevailed 6-0, 6-7(3), 6-4 against the world No 13 in Estadio Manolo Santana in the last 16 of the WTA 1000 clay tournament.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a>\u00a0dropped only seven points as she took a one-sided opening set in just 22 minutes, but Shnaider hit back as she won a tight second set on a tiebreak.<\/p>\n The world No 2 sealed a hard-fought win against the 21-year-old Russian after securing the only break of the third set in the fifth game. She remains undefeated in matches where she won the first set 6-0, improving her record to 78-0.<\/p>\n The match was initially scheduled to be played on Monday, but the major power outage in Spain and Portugal caused play in Madrid to be suspended.<\/p>\n After her victory over Shnaider, Swiatek was asked what she did during the blackout.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s good that in Madrid the sun is setting pretty late,\u201d the 23-year-old said in her on-court interview.\u00a0\u201cSo yeah, as soon as it got down and it was dark, they put the energy back in our area.<\/p>\n \u201cSo honestly, I just chilled and used that time to not think about what I should do. Should I, I don\u2019t know text or contact, like\u2026 there was no signal, so basically no one used their phones. It was nice, I liked it.\u201d<\/p>\n With her win, Swiatek has now progressed to the quarter-finals at each of the last 17 clay tournaments she has entered.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Pole is the first woman to reach this many consecutive quarter-finals on clay since tennis great Martina Hingis \u2014 who made 19 in a row between 1997 and 2002.<\/p>\n Swiatek is also the only player to feature in the quarter-finals of all five WTA 1000 tournaments held so far in 2025.<\/p>\n Revealed: How Iga Swiatek can remain as WTA world No 2 at the Madrid Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek says WTA is \u2018forcing us to play more events\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The 23-year-old, who is the reigning Madrid Open champion, has not gone beyond the semi-finals of an event since the French Open in June last year.<\/p>\n Her triumph against Shnaider also saw her improve her record against opponents ranked in the top 20 to a stellar 83-32 (72.2%).<\/p>\n Since 1990, only Steffi Graf and Serena Williams have a higher win rate against players in the top 20 of the WTA Rankings than Swiatek.<\/p>\n 1. Steffi Graf \u2013 82.1%<\/p>\n 2. Serena Williams \u2013 75.3%<\/p>\n 3. Iga Swiatek \u2013 72.2%<\/p>\n 4. Monica Seles \u2013 70.4%<\/p>\n 5. Martina Hingis \u2013 67.9%<\/p>\n Swiatek will face world No 5 Madison Keys in the last eight in Madrid in a rematch of their Australian Open semi-final \u2014 where Keys won after saving a match point.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Mirra Andreeva\u2019s stunning WTA 1000 milestone confirmed ahead of Coco Gauff showdown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Iga Swiatek emulates outstanding Martina Hingis milestone\u00a0as she survives Madrid Open scare<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek survived a scare against Diana Shnaider to reach the quarter-finals of the 2025 Madrid Open, and her latest win has brought more impressive statistics. The five-time major champion prevailed 6-0, 6-7(3), 6-4 against the world No 13 in Estadio Manolo Santana in the last 16 of the WTA 1000 clay tournament. Swiatek\u00a0dropped only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Iga Swiatek News<\/h2>\n
Best win percentage vs. top 20 WTA players (since 1990)<\/h4>\n