Gauff aims to end poor record against Swiatek

Coco Gauff says she needs to "find a amended way" of playing Iga Swiatek earlier nan brace meet successful nan French Open semi-finals connected Thursday.

Polish world number 1 Swiatek has won 10 of their 11 erstwhile meetings, including nan past 3 and 2 matches astatine Roland Garros - nan 2022 last and a quarter-final a twelvemonth later.

Swiatek, 23, won nan French Open successful 2020, 2022 and 2023. She has not mislaid successful 19 successive matches successful nan arena and reached nan last 4 this tourney by thrashing Marketa Vondrouvosa 6-0 6-2.

"She's decidedly a reliable force for maine and for anybody," said 20-year-old American Gauff. "She's playing awesome tennis here, truthful it's going to beryllium a challenge, but I'm going to spell into nan lucifer pinch a batch of belief that I tin win.

"I decidedly deliberation I person to find a amended measurement to play her."

Britain's Neal Skupski and American Desirae Krawczyk will compete successful their first French Open mixed doubles last arsenic a business connected Thursday.

They will look 2nd seeds Laura Siegemund and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, of Germany and France respectively.

In nan men's wheelchair singles, Britain's three-time champion Alfie Hewett plays two-time victor Argentine Gustavo Fernandez for a spot successful nan final.

Swiatek has won 4 Grand Slam titles and defeated Gauff 6-1 6-3 successful nan 2022 French Open last - nan first Slam last of Gauff's career.

Gauff won nan US Open successful 2023 and enjoyed her champion tally astatine nan Australian Open this year, reaching nan semi-finals earlier losing to eventual champion Aryna Sabalenka.

Swaitek now sees nan third-seeded Gauff arsenic a tougher force than earlier successful her career.

"Her intelligence crippled is simply a small spot better," added Swiatek. "Before it was benignant of easier to 'crack her', erstwhile you were leading. But it's normal that she's making progress. She's astatine that property that everything goes beautiful nicely, that if you're moving difficult past you will get progress.

"She's astir apt doing that, and astir apt each facet of her crippled is simply a small spot better, because it's different being a teen connected nan circuit and past being a much mature player."

In consequence to Swiatek's comments, Gauff said: "I don't cognize if it's thing I actively worked connected aliases if it's conscionable maturity complete nan years. You conscionable get older and study really to grip nan pressures a small spot more.

"I don't person a intelligence coach, but it is thing I knew I had to amended and conscionable beryllium much positive."

In nan different semi-final, Italian 12th seed Jasmine Paolini will look 17-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva.

Before this tournament, Paolini, 28, had only made it past nan 2nd information of a Slam connected 1 juncture - nan Australian Open earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile she mislaid to Russia's Anna Kalinskaya successful nan past 16.

But wins complete Australian Daria Saville, American Hailey Baptiste, Canadian Bianca Andreescu and Russian Elina Avanesyan took Paolini into her first Slam quarter-final.

On Wednesday she defeated 4th seed Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan, nan 2022 Wimbledon champion, 6-2 4-6 6-4 to beforehand into nan semi-finals.

With Jannik Sinner already done to nan men's last four, it is nan first clip an Italian man and female person reached nan semi-finals astatine nan aforesaid Slam.

Neither Paolini nor Andreeva person played successful a Slam final, pinch nan teen moving into nan last 4 acknowledgment to a come-from-behind 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4 triumph to eliminate world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka connected Wednesday.

Andreeva is group to move into nan apical 25 of nan world rankings for nan first clip successful what has been a awesome 12 months for her.

She reached nan past 16 astatine Wimbledon past summertime and thrashed three-time Slam finalist Ons Jabeur connected her measurement to nan aforesaid shape astatine nan Australian Open earlier this year.