Iga Swiatek was on the receiving end of a first set bagel against Madison Keys at the 2025 Madrid Open, but she fought back to keep her title defence alive.<\/p>\n
The world No 2 defeated Keys 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament at La Caja Magica.<\/p>\n
Keys, the world No 5 and reigning Australian Open champion, lost only nine points in a remarkable opening set as she became the first player to bagel Swiatek on clay since 2019.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a>\u00a0broke Keys twice in both the second and third sets to gain revenge for her defeat to\u00a0the 30-year-old American in an epic Australian Open semi-final in January.<\/p>\n In her on-court interview, Swiatek was asked: \u201cYou\u2019ve been giving away a lot of bagels in the last couple of years.\u00a0How did it feel to have to be on the other side for once?\u201d<\/p>\n The Polish star replied:\u00a0\u201cWell, not good. At least it\u2019s fast, you know (smiles). That\u2019s the only positive thing. But for sure, staying on a court and having 0-6 is\u2026 I don\u2019t know, just weird.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The five-time Grand Slam champion will face Coco Gauff in the semi-finals in Madrid.<\/p>\n Here are five intriguing statistics after Swiatek\u2019s win over Keys.<\/p>\n Swiatek is only the second player in the last 40 years to beat an opponent ranked in the top five after losing an opening set 0-6 at a WTA event on clay.<\/p>\n Steffi Graf is the only other woman to accomplish this, having come back to defeat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 0-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the 1992 French Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n By beating fifth-ranked Keys, Swiatek now has the second highest win percentage\u00a0against top 10 opposition in WTA Tour<\/a> history.<\/p>\n Her latest triumph has improved her record against top 10 players to an outstanding 49-20 (71%), which sees her edge above Serena Williams (70.9%). Only Graf has a better win rate against the top 10 (75%).<\/p>\n The 9 women to bagel Iga Swiatek: Madison Keys the first since 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s impressive Madrid Open record that only Serena Williams can beat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Swiatek is into her 20th semi-final from 36 main draw appearances at WTA 1000 tournaments.<\/p>\n Serena Williams is the only woman to reach the last four at this category of event 20 times from fewer tournaments (31).<\/p>\n The 23-year-old has taken her winning streak at the Madrid Open to 10 matches and improved her record at the tournament to 17-2 (89.5%).<\/p>\n The four-time French Open winner has now won 16 consecutive matches at WTA 1000 level on clay, a run that includes her triumphs in Madrid and Rome last year.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic hit by the same problem \u2013 and it will be hard to correct<\/a> The post 5 sublime Iga Swiatek stats as she reaches Madrid Open semi-finals: ft. Serena Williams & Steffi Graf<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek was on the receiving end of a first set bagel against Madison Keys at the 2025 Madrid Open, but she fought back to keep her title defence alive. The world No 2 defeated Keys 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament at La Caja Magica. Keys, the world No […]<\/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-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emulating Steffi Graf with a rare feat<\/h4>\n
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