Swiatek reached the quarterfinals of the Women's Singles at the 2025 Madrid Tennis Championships and continues to make progress towards defending her title

After a power outage in Spain and Portugal, the 2025 Madrid Tennis Tournament resumed the next day. On the 29th local time, Poland's second seed and defending champion Swiatek blocked Russia's back waveDiana SchneiderAfter 3 sets of hard fighting, she finally got out of trouble with 6:0, 6:7 (3:7), and 6:4, and reached the top 8 of women's singles, while continuing to move towards the goal of defending the title.

Poland's second seed and defending champion Swiatek

This co-op, WTA 1,000-point clay tournament is taking place in the Spanish capital. Swiatek started the game with great momentum, and it only took 22 minutes to sweep the clearing, but in the second set, Schneider made a strong counterattack with his left hand, and pulled back to 7, but fortunately, Swiatek adjusted and stabilized in the deciding set, relying on the key break in the fifth game to suppress the opponent, and fought for 2 hours and 34 minutes to qualify.

Asked about the power outage after the game, the 23-year-old revealed that she actually enjoyed a break from the internet and the game, "To be honest, I feel like the world is a lot more relaxed, basically no one can use their phones, which feels good and gives me time to rest." And the sunset in Madrid is late, and the power is restored here as soon as it gets dark. ”

Four-time French Open women's singles champion Swiatek is currently in the quarter-finals of 17 consecutive clay-court tournaments and will face fifth seed Madison Case, the fifth seed of the Australian Open who won the Australian Open earlier this year, for a place in the semi-finals as she seeks to avenge the loss in the last four of the Australian Open.