{"id":29375,"date":"2026-05-11T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-open-iga-swiatek-sets-up-naomi-osaka-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:05:35","slug":"italian-open-iga-swiatek-sets-up-naomi-osaka-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-open-iga-swiatek-sets-up-naomi-osaka-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open: Iga Swiatek sets up Naomi Osaka meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Iga Swiatek dropped just one game as she raced past Elisabetta Cocciaretto to set up an intriguing Italian Open fourth-round meeting with Naomi Osaka.<\/b><\/p>\n

Poland’s Swiatek is the best clay-court player of this generation, with four of her six Grand Slam titles coming at the French Open. <\/p>\n

However, the world number three has not claimed a title on clay since her last Roland Garros triumph in 2024.<\/p>\n

After splitting with coach Wim Fissette, who helped her win Wimbledon last year, Swiatek has teamed up with Francisco Roig, the former coach of the great Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n

And the 24-year-old showed glimpses of her best in a 67-minute 6-1 6-0 demolition of home hope Cocciaretto.<\/p>\n

Swiatek, a two-time winner of the Rome title, won 76% of points behind her first serve and lost just six points behind her second.<\/p>\n

She will now face Japan’s four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka, who has had an impressive few weeks despite not being a natural on the surface.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Iga Swiatek dropped just one game as she raced past Elisabetta Cocciaretto to set up an intriguing Italian Open fourth-round meeting with Naomi Osaka. Poland’s Swiatek is the best clay-court player of this generation, with four of her six Grand Slam titles coming at the French Open. However, the world number three has not claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29377,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions\/29377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}