High-flyer Iga Swiatek made it into the quarter-finals of Wimbledon for the first time after a feat of strength.
The world number one from Poland won her round of 16 against the number 14 seeded Olympic champion Belinda Bencic 6:7 (4:7), 7:6 (7:2), 6:3 and showed strong nerves: At a score of 5:6 in the In the second set, she fended off two match balls from the Swiss.
The four-time Grand Slam winner Swiatek won the following tie-break, a little later she managed the break in the third set to make it 3-1. Bencic, who still has to wait for her first place in the quarter-finals in Wimbledon, looked physically ill in the final stages of the match and made a few mistakes.
22-year-old Swiatek now meets Elina Switolina from Ukraine, who defeated number 19 seed Victoria Asarenka 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9). “This is the second happiest moment of my life after the birth of my daughter,” Switolina said after the match.