PARIS (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has won her 33rd match in a row with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 11th-seeded Jessica Pegula to advance to the semifinals of the French Open.
The 21-year-old Swiatek has gone unbeaten since February for the WTA’s longest such stretch since Serena Williams compiled a 34-match run in 2013.
Swiatek, who won the 2020 French Open, will next face Daria Kasatkina of Russia for a spot at the final. The 20th-seeded Kasatkina advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 win over No. 29 Veronika Kudermetova, also of Russia.
Marin Cilic dominated a fifth-set tiebreaker against seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev to advance to his first French Open semifinal. The 2014 U.S. Open champion won 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 in a match that lasted more than four hours. The 33-year-old Cilic will next face No. 8 Casper Ruud.
Casper Ruud has become the first man from Norway to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament. He made it that far at the French Open by beating 19-year-old Holger Rune of Denmark 6-1, 4-6, 7-6, 6-3.
Ruud leads the ATP with 65 wins in clay-court matches since the start of the 2020 season.
