Melbourne (AP) – A good 15 months after her French Open coup, the Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek moved into the semifinals at the Australian Open for the first time.
In a hard-fought quarter-final, the 20-year-old top ten player beat outsider Kaia Kanepi from Estonia 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 in Melbourne. In the semifinals on Thursday, Swiatek will meet American Danielle Collins, who is 27th. The world number 115. Kanepi defeated Angelique Kerber from Kiel in the first round of the Grand Slam tournament and surprised her by jumping into the top eight.