{"id":312713,"date":"2023-04-23T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/23\/swiatek-beats-sabalenka-in-straight-sets-to-win-stuttgart-title-tennis-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T14:10:19","slug":"swiatek-beats-sabalenka-in-straight-sets-to-win-stuttgart-title-tennis-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/23\/swiatek-beats-sabalenka-in-straight-sets-to-win-stuttgart-title-tennis-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek beats Sabalenka in straight sets to win Stuttgart title | Tennis News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-99711344,imgsize-70916.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>STUTTGART (Germany): World number one <!-- -->Iga Swiatek<!-- --> cruised past <!-- -->Aryna Sabalenka<!-- --> 6-3, 6-4 to win the <!-- -->Stuttgart Open<!-- --> on Sunday in a repeat of last year&#8217;s final to confirm her status as a <!-- -->French Open<!-- --> favourite.<br \/>The Pole, back from injury and gearing up for her French Open title defence next month, and world number two Sabalenka traded powerful baseline blows before Swiatek earned a second breakpoint at 4-3.<br \/>She whipped a superb forehand down the line to go 5-3 up before easily holding serve to clinch the first set on her second set point.<br \/>Swiatek, fit again following a rib injury that forced her to withdraw ahead of the <!-- -->Miami Open<!-- --> and Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers after she hurt herself during her run to the Indian Wells semi-finals last month, broke her opponent again in the first game of the second set.<br \/>Belarusian Sabalenka started to pile up unforced errors and struggled with her serve at 2-0 before firing a cross-court forehand to hold.<br \/>But she could not break Swiatek back and the Pole held serve at 5-4 to seal her second title of the year. &#8220;I want to thank my team because it has been such an intense time. I am so happy we are making the right decisions,&#8221; Swiatek said, following her well-timed return from injury.<br \/>&#8220;It is a pretty exciting time. I will be coming back because I love this tournament.&#8221;<br \/>While Swiatek won it for a second consecutive time, it was Sabalenka&#8217;s third straight loss in the final in Stuttgart.<\/div>\n<p><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n      var scripts = [\n      'https:\/\/static.clmbtech.com\/ad\/commons\/js\/2658\/toi\/colombia_v2.js',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n    ];\n      scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n        let script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n        if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        }\n        script.async = true;\n        script.defer = true;\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    }\n  }\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/tennis\/top-stories\/swiatek-beats-sabalenka-in-straight-sets-to-win-stuttgart-title\/articleshow\/99711335.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] STUTTGART (Germany): World number one Iga Swiatek cruised past Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-4 to win the Stuttgart Open on Sunday in a repeat of last year&#8217;s final to confirm her status as a French Open favourite.The Pole, back from injury and gearing up for her French Open title defence next month, and world number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17264,936,5796,25979,230151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}