{"id":274815,"date":"2025-10-03T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:57:14","slug":"swiatek-wins-400th-career-match-at-china-open-alcaraz-reaches-japan-final-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274815\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek wins 400th career match at China Open. Alcaraz reaches Japan final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kate-princess-of-wales-wimbledon-e9f96c4f6e8112227d13c00d2990c41c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wimbledon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wimbledon<\/a> champion Iga Swiatek defeated Camila Osorio for her 400th career win and advanced to the fourth round at the China Open on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTA\/status\/1971825681425371339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the first player;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the first player<\/a> to register 25 or more wins at WTA-1000 events for three consecutive seasons, showed no signs of slowing down as she dismantled her Colombian opponent 6-0 in the first set before Osorio retired in the opening game of the second set.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry for Camila because she\u2019s always giving 100%,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cBut overall, like besides that, I feel like I played good in the first set and really used my game to push Camila.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Swiatek, who won last week\u2019s Korea Open in Seoul, next plays American Emma Navarro. Navarro was leading Lois Boisson 6-2, 1-0 when the French player retired from their match.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth-seeded Jessica Pegula saved three match points before knocking out Emma Raducanu 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-0. Pegula improved her record against the Briton to 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In other third-round matches, fourth-seeded Mirra Andreeva beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-1 and Marta Kostyuk beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s tournament, top-seeded Jannik Sinner cruised into the semifinals after defeating Fabian Marozsan 6-1, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian next plays third-seeded Alex de Minaur, who advanced by walkover after his opponent Jakub Mensik retired injured while trailing 4-1 in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Daniil Medvedev defeated second-seeded Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-3 and reached his 60th career semifinal, and first since June. Medvedev&#8217;s second win this year against Zverev are his only top-10 wins of 2025. He&#8217;s won his last against Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz to face Fritz<\/p>\n<p>In Tokyo, top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz came from a set down to beat fourth-seeded Casper Ruud 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Japan Open semifinals for his personal best 66th victory in a season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of chances in the first set,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cI had four break points if I\u2019m not wrong. I just tried to be more positive than the first set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Alcaraz set up a final on Tuesday against second-seeded Taylor Fritz who hit 13 aces in eliminating fellow American Jenson Brooksby 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Fritz beat Alcaraz 6-3, 6-2 at the Laver Cup.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek defeated Camila Osorio for her 400th career win and advanced to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":274816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[23874,3098,142240,3099,15187,42103,22298,22950,21487,142241,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-274815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-alexander-zverev","10":"tag-camila-osorio","11":"tag-daniil-medvedev","12":"tag-emma-navarro","13":"tag-fritz","14":"tag-iga-swiatek","15":"tag-jessica-bouzas-maneiro","16":"tag-jessica-pegula","17":"tag-open-semifinals","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tennis","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115310824186721611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}