will start the season with the WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide. It will be a test for her before the upcoming one. At the beginning, Polka will play with Daria Saville (419th). The Australian’s road to the tournament was quite long. The competitor received a wild card for qualifying. Later, she defeated the American Catherine McNally (6: 3, 6: 4) and the British Katie Boulter (7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 4).
Iga Świątek met her first rival this year. She is a definite favorite
The definite favorite of this meeting will be Iga Świątek. Her rival is known in the tennis world under the name of Gavrilov. She represented Russia between 2009 and 2015, but later moved to Australia, and at the end of that year, she married tennis player Luke Saville. The player has won one WTA tournament – in 2017, she won in New Haven. That year was her best career, and good results resulted in her career being the 20th place in the WTA ranking. Last year, Saville appeared in only one tournament of the WTA rank. The player was eliminated from Ashleigh Barty (1: 6, 6: 7) in the second round of the tournament.
The match against Saville will be interesting due to the debut of Tomasz Wiktorowski as the coach of Iga Świątek. . In the event of a win against the Australian, the 20-year-old will face Leylah Fernandez in the 1/8 finals of the tournament. The competitor was a surprise in last year, in which she lost only to Emma Raducanu in the final.
The Christmas-Saville meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 4. The match starts around 3:00 am Polish time.
Source: Sport
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