Billie Jean King Cup: Iga Swiatek’s Poland beat Czech Republic to arrange semi-final in Italy

World quantity two Iga Swiatek made it back-to-back wins to steer Poland to their first Billie Jean King Cup semi-final with a win over the Czech Republic.

After Czech Marie Bouzkova gained her opening match towards Magdalena Frech, it was as much as Swiatek to maintain Poland’s hopes alive.

The five-time Grand Slam winner began by beating the younger Czech, Linda Noskova, who knocked her out of the Australian Open in January, 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 7-5 in a match that lasted two hours and 39 minutes.

Swiatek then returned to the court docket with Katarzyna Kawa the place they’d an uncommon doubles match, and the pair gained 6-1 6-4 over Katerina Siniakova and Bouzkova to e book their place within the semi-finals.

“In 20 minutes I will be lifeless,” Swiatek joked afterward.

“It was a tiring day, however all the things labored. We did job, we gained.”