Match Details

• Match: Iga Swiatek vs Viktorija Golubic.
• Tournament: WTA Miami Open 2022.
• Date: 26th March 2022.
• Time: 4:30 a.m.
• Venue: Miami, Florida.
• Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt.
• Round: Round of 64.
• Category: WTA 1000.
• Prize money: $8,584,055

Iga Swiatek vs Viktorija Golubic Preview

On Friday, second seed Iga Swiatek will lock horns with Viktorija Golubic in the second round of the 2022 Miami Open. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:30 a.m.

Swiatek has come a long way since she made a name for herself at the tender age of 19 by winning the French Open 2020. With the poise of a veteran and the shots of a champion, 19-year-old Iga Swiatek inscribed her name in tennis fans' hearts. Afterwards, from reaching the Semifinals of Adelaide international and the Australian Open 2022 to establishing her dominance over the Qatar Open, Swiatek has been in tremendous form. She progressed to the final of the Indian Wells by defeating heavy names like Simona Halep and former World No. 1 Angelique Kerber, where Maria Sakkari Awaited her.
In a thrilling contest, the pole won in straight sets, becoming the first Polish woman to lift the trophy in the process. She also reached her career-high ranking of World No. 2 after that.

Golubic had a strong start to the season, rising to a career-high of World No. 35 in February. The Swiss' finest result this year came in the quarterfinals of the Melbourne Summer Set. In the first round of the Miami Open, the 29-year-old defeated Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to set up a clash with Swiatek.

Iga Swiatek vs Viktorija Golubic Head-To-Head Records

Iga Swiatek and Viktorija Golubic will face off for the third time. The head-to-head record is 1-1, with a 1-0 margin on hard. The World No.2 won (6-2 3-6 6-2) in the second round in Doha in February 2022, the last time they met.

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Iga Swiatek vs Viktorija Golubic: Who Will Be The Ultimate Winner ?

Considering her ranking and tremendous form, Iga Swiatek will absolutely be the clear favourite. Also, her algorithm has also altered recently, and she is now playing considerably more aggressively. That would undoubtedly work in her favour. Nevertheless, if all goes well, she will be able to win the match with her powerful cross-court backhands.

The Swiss may try to put up a decent fight against her, but Swiatek, who will be the World No.1 if she wins this tournament, is unstoppable right at the moment.

Our Prediction: Iga Swiatek will win in straight sets.

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Iga Swiatek's Previous best Performances in Miami Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021.

Viktorija Golubic's Previous best Performances in Miami Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017.

Iga Swiatek vs Viktorija Golubic: Where To Watch?

However, all of the action will be broadcasted live for spectators in the following countries, on the following networks and websites:

• USA: Viewers in the United States can catch all the action on Tennis Channel.
• UK: Enthusiasts in the United Kingdom can watch the action live on Amazon Prime Video.
• India: Voot, an OTT platform in India will be showing the coverage of the Miami Open 2022 online.

WTA World No. 2 Iga Swiatek has not won any titles since last year's French Open, despite having an overall strong season. Even worse, a Polish news outlet recently reported that Swiatek was considering skipping Wimbledon 2025 to prepare for the US Open in August.

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Swiatek strongly refused those reports during her Media Day press conference at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. The five-time Grand Slam champion said, "Shouldn't believe this stuff." She added, “During past few days I saw million comments that were not true.”

'I'm not going to skip Wimbledon'

Swiatek further explained, "I don't get it. There are so many theories right now, I would say, especially in Polish media, about me that are not true. I think, I don't' know, you guys like to make some articles that will attract people. I get it. It's part of the job.

"But yeah, for sure, I'm not going to skip Wimbledon. I really want to learn how to play on grass better. Every year is another opportunity. I will play Wimbledon, for sure, unless I get injured."

'love-and-hate relationship with my perfectionism'

A former junior Wimbledon champion, the 23-year-old has posted her least dominant results on grass in the years since winning her first major title at 2020 Roland Garros. Relatively subpar results on hard courts and clay have been more surprising, leading Swiatek to consider her own perfectionism as a source of this recent late-stage inconsistency.

“I have [a] love-and-hate relationship with my perfectionism. The thing is that I only remember the good stuff from last years because I was winning titles and everything. My head kind of remembers the good stuff.” said Swiatek.

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Wimbledon 2025 to begin in June

Swiatek is currently the WTA World No. 2 with a record of 26-8 on the season with zero titles. The Polish superstar's campaign at the Italian Open starts on Thursday, May 8. Fans can mark their calendars for the French Open, which will start on May 25, and Wimbledon 2025, which will begin June 30.

The full list of entrants for the Paris Olympics 2024 Tennis Event has been confirmed on Thursday at Wimbledon by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), organizer of the event on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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The Paris Olympics 2024 will be held on clay at the Roland Garros Stadium over nine days, from 27 July to 4 August. It will be played on 12 competition courts, with six more for training. The Philippe-Chatrier stadium, which can seat 15,000, and the Suzanne-Lenglen stadium, which can hold 9,000, will be the main courts and both have retractable roofs.

Lebanon makes its Olympic debut

A total of 41 nations will be represented, with 184 players competing in five events (men's and women's singles, doubles, and mixed doubles). Lebanon will make its debut in the competition. Sixty-four players will compete in both singles events, while 32 teams will contest both doubles events. Entries for the 16-team mixed doubles event will be determined on July 24.

Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray lead the list

The men's and women's singles rosters feature top players such as world No. 1 players Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff, and Elena Rybakina. The lists also include other former Olympic champions such as Rafa Nadal, a singles and doubles gold medalist, as well as two-time singles gold medalist Andy Murray and Beijing 2008 doubles gold medalist Stan Wawrinka. 

There is a limit of four singles players per gender and country. Nations have also been able to nominate up to two doubles teams per event, with a maximum of six players per gender per country in total.

Under the ITF Ranking System, all players must be in good standing with their national federation and have met the eligibility requirements for the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup. Any player who did not meet this criteria could have had his or her national federation apply for an exemption from the ITF Olympic Committee. The ATP and WTA rankings as of June 10 were used for entry.

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For men's and women's doubles, the top 24 teams were selected on a combined singles or doubles ranking, with the top 10 doubles players eligible to enter directly with any partner with a Top 300 ranking. In accordance with IOC player quota regulations, for the remaining eight teams priority was given to teams that included two singles players, followed by teams that included one singles player.

Entries for the mixed doubles event, which will feature 16 teams, will be determined on-site from players already competing in singles or doubles, with a maximum of one team per country. Registration closes at 11:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Wednesday 24 July and the ITF will announce the entry list shortly afterward.

Check out the full entry list of Paris Olympics 2024 here

World No. 1 Iga Siwatek defeated Jasmine Paolini by 6-2, 6-1 in the Roland Garros final to win her fourth French Open and fifth Grand Slams title. The Polish tennis star took just 68 minutes to win the final and keep her 100% record intact in the Grand Slam finals.

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With this win, Iga Swiatek became the third Women's tennis player in the open era to win the Roland Garros in three consecutive years. Before her only Monica Seles in 1990-92 and Justine Henin in 2005-07 were able to accomplish the ‘three-peat' in Roland-Garros. 

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Iga now extended her Roland-Garros win streak to 21 matches. It was in 2021 when she lost a match at Roland Garros in the quarter-finals against Maria Sakkari.

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The No. 1 WTA tennis player took just 34 minutes to win the first set and another 34 minutes to win the second. Although in the first three games of the first set, Jasmine Paolini tried her best to make a match in the final, Iga powered through five games in a row to claim the first set. 

The Italian was not able to put up any resistance against Iga as the Polish star won the second set very easily. 

World number one player Iga Swiatek will face Italy's Jasmine Paolini in the women's singles final of the French Open 2024 at Roland Garros, Paris on Saturday.

Jasmine Paolini had not been able to go beyond the fourth round in any Grand Slam before. Indian tennis fans are eager to watch the women's final of the French Open 2024. In such a situation, know here where and how you can watch this final match.

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How to watch French Open 2024 women's singles final in India?

According to Indian time, this great tennis match will start on Saturday (June 08) at 6:30 pm. You can watch the live telecast of this tournament on Sony Sports Network. Apart from this, you can also watch its live streaming on Sony Liv and JioTV in India. 

Swiatek and Paolini's route to French Open 2024 final

Current champion Iga Swiatek has taken a big step towards her third consecutive French Open title by defeating America's Coco Gauff 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals. She won her 11th win out of her 12 matches against Coco Gauff.

In the second semifinal, Italy's Jasmine Paolini defeated Russian young player Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 6-1 to reach the final and continued Italy's success in this tournament.

23-year-old Switek will try to win her fourth and third consecutive French Open title. On the other hand, 28-year-old Paolini has reached the final of the French Open for the first time. But the 12th seed has played some inspired tennis this season. She won the Dubai Masters in February, the biggest title of her career.

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Head-to-head record

When it comes to head-to-head record, Swiatek leads Paolini 2-0. They first faced each other in an ITF event in Prague six years ago, which remains their only meeting on clay. The next time they played against each other was during the first round of a title-winning run for Swiatek at the 2022 US Open.

Indian tennis player Sumit Nagal, on his debut in Miami Open, defeated Canada's Gabriel Diallo by the score of 7-6(7-3), 6-2 in the first round qualifier match on Monday.

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With the win, Sumit Nagal reached the final qualifying round and will face 19-year-old Coleman Wong of Hong Kong, whom he had earlier defeated in two straight sets at the ATP Bengaluru Challenger.

At the same time, Sumit Nagal, who broke into the world top 100 after winning the Chennai Open last month, is likely to reach a new career-high of world No. 92 in the ATP Live Rankings after this win. Nagal had created quite a flutter in January when he advanced to the second round of the Australian Open. That effort had played a big part in launching him into the top-100 of the ATP rankings.

Talking about the match, Nagal started a little slow but won the tie-breaker in the first set after saving a break point in the seventh game to take the lead of 1-0. He came back and dominated the second set, breaking Diallo in the first and seventh games. Nagal won the tie-breaker in the first set after saving a break point in the seventh game, while he dominated the second set, breaking Diallo in the first and seventh games.

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Sumit Nagal had made it to the main draw of his last tournament Indian Wells due to Rafael Nadal's last-minute withdrawal but then lost to Milos Raonic in the first round. He had to face defeat in the final qualifying round of the tournament despite presenting a tough challenge against South Korea's Hong Seong-chan.