Iga Swiatek of Poland hits a return to Maya Joint of Australia during their women's singles semi-final match at the Korea Open tennis tournament in Seoul on Saturday. — AFP SEOUL, Sept 20 (AFP): Iga Swiatek blazed into the Korea Open final after bad weather forced her to play two matches on Saturday, winning both in a combined time of two and a half hours.
The Polish six-time Grand Slam champion thrashed the Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova 6-0, 6-3 in a quarter-final moved from Friday because of heavy rain, then returned to the court hours later to face Australia's Maya Joint.
World number two Swiatek was just as clinical against her semi-final opponent, winning 6-0, 6-2 to move into her fifth final of the year.
In Sunday's final, she will face Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova, who beat Czech Republic's Katerina Siniakova 6-4, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
"I just focused on myself and on the goals that I had before and continued doing what I was doing throughout the whole tournament, because it's been working," said Swiatek.
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