{"id":20896,"date":"2024-01-20T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/20896\/top-ranked-iga-swiatek-loses-to\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T12:03:40","slug":"top-ranked-iga-swiatek-loses-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=20896","title":{"rendered":"Top-ranked Iga Swiatek loses to Linda Noskova at Aussie Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Iga Swiatek loses to Linda Noskova at Aussie Open\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Top-ranked Iga Swiatek is out of the Australian Open after a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 third-round loss to 50th-ranked Linda Noskova on Saturday left no players from the top 10 at the bottom.  half of the women&#39;s field.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek is a four-time major winner but has never progressed past the semi-finals at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Despite this, she was on an 18-match winning streak and hoped to beat Noskova, who is making her tournament main draw debut.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek defeated 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin and 2022 finalist Danielle Collins in the first two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>But after winning the first set against her 19-year-old Czech opponent, she struggled to find rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>After saving a break point in the seventh game of the second set, Noskova won 11 of the next 12 points to tie the match at one set apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Noskova continued to hit and earned the decisive break in the seventh game of the third set.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek held strong in the penultimate game and forced her rival to serve, then took a 0-30 lead in the 10th game.<\/p>\n<p>But Noskova remained calm, winning the next four points to quickly finish things off.  She won a match point with an ace and sealed it when Swiatek sent a long forehand.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek&#39;s defeat leaves Zheng Qinwen, 12th, as the highest-ranked player in the bottom half of the women&#39;s draw and two-time Australian Open winner Victoria Azarenka, at 18th, the only major winner.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka, seeded second, US Open champion Coco Gauff, seeded fourth, and No. 9 Barbora Krejcikova are all on the opposite side of the draw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Iga Swiatek loses to Linda Noskova at Aussie Open\u060c MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Top-ranked Iga Swiatek is out of the Australian Open after a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 third-round loss to 50th-ranked Linda Noskova on Saturday left no players from the top 10 at the bottom. half of the women&#39;s field. Swiatek is a four-time major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[799,9493,9494,946,9495,64,6017,9492],"class_list":["post-20896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-aussie","tag-iga","tag-linda","tag-loses","tag-noskova","tag-open","tag-swiatek","tag-topranked"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}