{"id":6035,"date":"2023-02-18T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/qatar-open-iga-swiatek-beats-jessica-pegula-in-straight-sets-to-defend-title\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T18:25:16","slug":"qatar-open-iga-swiatek-beats-jessica-pegula-in-straight-sets-to-defend-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/qatar-open-iga-swiatek-beats-jessica-pegula-in-straight-sets-to-defend-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: Iga Swiatek beats Jessica Pegula in straight sets to defend title"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Iga Swiatek won the French Open and US Open last year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

World number one Iga Swiatek defended her title at the Qatar Open with a straight-set victory over America’s Jessica Pegula. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The three-time major winner, from Poland, beat second seed Pegula 6-3 6-0 in just 69 minutes in Doha on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It takes Swiatek’s head-to-head record with the world number four to 5-2.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 21-year-old dropped just five games all week as she claimed her first WTA Tour title of 2023 and her 12th title overall. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the first set, Swiatek went a break up at both 2-0 and 4-2 but Pegula broke back immediately each time.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the American failed to pull even when Swiatek broke for a 5-3 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pole raced through the second set, winning 73% of points when returning Pegula’s second serve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swiatek, who beat Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit in straight sets in last year’s Qatar Open final, becomes the first player to defend a WTA Tour singles title since she won a second successive Italian Open in May.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her victory at last year’s Qatar Open sparked a 37-match winning run which culminated in her second Grand Slam title at the French Open.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iga Swiatek won the French Open and US Open last year World number one Iga Swiatek defended her title at the Qatar Open with a straight-set victory over America’s Jessica Pegula. The three-time major winner, from Poland, beat second seed Pegula 6-3 6-0 in just 69 minutes in Doha on Saturday. It takes Swiatek’s head-to-head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}