Marie Mahé, Media365, published on Saturday January 4, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.
This Saturday, Poland, led by Iga Swiatek, and the United States, guided by Coco Gauff, validated their ticket for the United Cup final.
The third edition of the United Cup is about to deliver its verdict. This Saturday, the first semi-final pitted Kazakhstan against Poland. The first meeting of the day saw the Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko, 78th player in the world, face off against the Pole Hubert Hurkacz, 16th player in the world. It was the latter who won in two sets (6-3, 6-2) and only 59 minutes of play. In the first set, the Kazakh was broken from the start, before seeing his opponent of the day go and glean this first round on its second opportunity (6-3). Finally, in the second and final round, Alexander Shevchenko lost his last two faceoffs and the Pole then concluded with a final shutout (6-2). The ladies then took over, with a duel at the top between the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, 6th player in the world, and the Pole Iga Swiatek, 2nd player in the world. Here too, it was the higher ranked of the two who had the last word, in two sets (7-6 (5), 6-4) and 2h05 of play.
Gauff in good shape
The doubles was then played and Poland also won this meeting, thanks to the pair Chwalinska/Zielinski opposed to Kulambayeva/Shevchenko (6-4, 6-1, 1h02 of play). On arrival, Poland won (3-0), to earn the right to reach the final, with the United States as their next opponents. The Americans won by the same score (3-0) against the Czech Republic. The American Taylor Fritz, 4th player in the world, took advantage of the abandonment of the Czech Tomas Machac, 25th player in the world, during the second round (6-7 (4), 6-5) and after 1h52 of effort, to bring the first point to his country. Among the ladies, Coco Gauff, 3rd player in the world, then played against the Czech Karolina Muchova, 22nd player in the world, in two short sets (6-1, 6-4) and 1h27 of play. Finally, here too the doubles took place. is played and the United States flew over it, thanks to Krawczyk and Kudla against Knutson and Riki (7-5, 6-0, 1h08 of play).
