Iga Swiatek battles past Lauren Davis for the US Open 4th round

Iga Swiatek advanced to the 4th round of the US Open by beating Lauren Davis in a fairly competitive two-hour match 6-3 6-4.

Davis showed a lot of promise this week in New York playing some very aggressive tennis that she certainly brought today as well. The American fell behind 0-3 early in this match because the aggressive approach did not give any results.

The lead grew for Swiatek as she found herself up 4-1 at one point in time with the set assuming a natural flow after that and ending 6-3 in favour of the Polish player. It was a fairly attacking one by both but 5 winners and 15 unforced errors were not good enough for Swiatke who had 17 winners and 20 unforced ones.

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The 2nd set opened much better for Davis who jumped out to an early 3-0 lead which she held for a while. Eventually, Swiatek was able to battle back and make it 4-4 adding another break, later on, to finish off the match 6-4.

She won 5 games in a row to finish off the match as Davis failed to keep up the high level from the first couple of games.