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Both Iga Swiatek and Nadia Podoroska will be looking to take control in different ways. The most impressive thing about Swiatek’s game is just how complete her skill set already is. She has a solid and versatile serve, the angles and power she creates with her heavy topspin forehand can be devastating even though her backhand is more reliable. She also has great hands, which she showed against Halep with some sweet drop shots and a couple of lovely volleys, and she is a really good athlete. She can win points in so many different ways.
As she has developed, she has had to make sense of those skills and how to use them. In
Paris, all of those facets of her game have finally come together at the same time and she has bulldozed opponents with her aggression and creativity. 1.20pm BST
Hello! Welcome to our coverage on day 12 of Roland Garros, which will see the
Women take centre stage with a pair of very interesting semi-finals. First up is the big surprise of the tournament as unseeded Iga Swiatek of Poland and qualifier Nadia Podoroska of
Argentina will both contest their first career semifinal with so much opportunity on the line. Two slam champions will follow, with two-time
Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova taking on this year’s
Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin,
The first semi-final will mark the first time since Justine Henin beat Zheng Jie in the 2010
Australian Open that a semi-final has been played between two unseeded players. Of course, Henin was an all-time great in the midst of a comeback and Zheng was a former top 20 player. Before that encounter, this last happened in 1983 when there were only 16 seeds. In other words, it doesn’t happen.