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Iga Swiatek (POL) plays a shot against Diana Shnaider during quarter final play at Sobeys Stadium on\u00a0Aug 10, 2026.\u00a0\u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n
TORONTO: Iga Swiatek produced a dominant display to defeat Diana Shnaider 6-2, 6-1 and reach the semi-finals of the Canadian Open here at Centre Court at Sobeys Stadium on Monday, strengthening her preparations for the US Open.<\/p>\n
The Polish seventh seed was in complete control throughout the 68-minute contest, combining powerful ball-striking with impressive court coverage to overwhelm her Russian opponent.<\/p>\n
Swiatek quickly established her authority, breaking twice in the opening set as Shnaider struggled with her consistency.<\/p>\n
The Russian committed 12 unforced errors in the set, allowing Swiatek to move 5-2 ahead after her opponent sent a forehand into the net.<\/p>\n
The former world number one then closed out the set when Shnaider made another error.<\/p>\n
There was little improvement from Shnaider in the second set, with Swiatek continuing to dictate exchanges from the baseline. She did not face a single break point and secured another break to move 5-1 ahead after producing a sharply angled cross-court winner that clipped the line.<\/p>\n
Swiatek sealed victory when Shnaider sent a forehand long on match point.<\/p>\n
The result sends Swiatek into her first WTA 1000 semi-final of an inconsistent season. She will face Elina Svitolina, who recovered from a set down to defeat Ekaterina Alexandrova in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Swiatek, a six-time Grand Slam champion, won the US Open in 2022 but has failed to progress beyond the quarter-finals at a major this season. <\/p>\n
She also suffered a surprise second-round defeat by compatriot Magda Linette in Miami, prompting her to replace coach Wim Fissette with Francisco Roig.<\/p>\n
At Wimbledon, where she was defending champion, Swiatek was beaten in straight sets by Alexandra Eala in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek (POL) plays a shot against Diana Shnaider during quarter final play at Sobeys Stadium on\u00a0Aug 10,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[10198,3241,247,11289,3133],"class_list":["post-49581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iga-swiatek","tag-canadian-open","tag-diana-shnaider","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-svitolina","tag-swiatek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}