{"id":199230,"date":"2022-08-31T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=199230"},"modified":"2022-08-31T00:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:44:31","slug":"swiatek-eases-into-us-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/swiatek-eases-into-us-open-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek eases into US Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York, 30 Aug: World number one Iga Swiatek breezed into the second of the US Open on Tuesday with a straight sets victory over Italy&#8217;s Jasmine Paolini.<br \/>\nThe Polish top seed, who has never gone past the fourth round in New York, wrapped up a 6-3, 6-0 in 1hr 7min on the Louis Armstrong Stadium.<br \/>\nSwiatek, the reigning French Open champion, will face either Belgium&#8217;s Greet Minnen or 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens in the second round.<br \/>\nSwiatek took control of Tuesday&#8217;s contest early in the first set, grabbing service breaks in the third and fifth games to race into a 4-1 lead.<br \/>\nAlthough Paolini rallied to break back to 4-2, the Italian was broken again as Swiatek opened up a 5-2 lead.<br \/>\nSwiatek suffered another break as she served for the set, but broke back immediately to clinch the opener 6-3.<br \/>\nPaolini&#8217;s resistance crumbled in the second set, with Swiatek dominating her opponent to score three breaks to clinch victory. (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, 30 Aug: World number one Iga Swiatek breezed into the second of the US Open on Tuesday with a straight sets victory over Italy&#8217;s Jasmine Paolini. The Polish top seed, who has never gone past the fourth round in New York, wrapped up a 6-3, 6-0 in 1hr 7min on the Louis Armstrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}