{"id":27357,"date":"2025-09-14T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=27357"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:55:30","slug":"swan-stuns-top-seed-to-reach-wagga-wagga-final-as-sweeny-polmans-set-tamworth-title-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2025\/09\/14\/swan-stuns-top-seed-to-reach-wagga-wagga-final-as-sweeny-polmans-set-tamworth-title-clash","title":{"rendered":"Swan Stuns Top Seed to Reach Wagga Wagga Final as Sweeny, Polmans Set Tamworth Title Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Katie Swan\u2019s career resurgence has her on the cusp of another title after she took down top seed Lizette Cabrera to reach the final of the Wagga Wagga Tennis International #1.<\/div>\n
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Swan, 26, is a former United Cup representative for Great Britain who has battled a debilitating back issue before finally freeing herself of the injury woes this year.<\/div>\n
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With Wagga Wagga never having hosted an ITF event in its history, Swan has been the standout performer in the Riverina this week and prevailed in a gripping second set tiebreaker to down Cabrera 6-4, 7-6(8) at Jim Elphick Tennis Centre on Saturday.<\/div>\n
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Swan needed five match points to finally seal the deal, but the fourth seed did enough to set up a showdown with Taylah Preston, who came from a set down to beat Elena Micic 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.<\/div>\n
Swan\u2019s win was far from straight forward with Cabrera making her work for two hours and 15 minutes, but she\u2019s now only one match from a third title in 2025 after triumphs in San Diego and Spain\u2019s Don Benito.<\/div>\n
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She spent eight months until April without playing in an ITF event.<\/div>\n
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Swan is yet to drop a set this week and has spent considerably less time on court than 19-year-old Preston, who has had had to go the distance twice already, including a final set tiebreaker against Laquisa Khan in the second round.<\/div>\n
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The top two men\u2019s seeds playing the Capital of Country International at Tamworth will square off in the final after Dane Sweeny and Marc Polmans justified favouritism in their semi-finals.<\/div>\n
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Sweeny was forced to do it the hard way though, fighting from a set down to beat Poland\u2019s Filip Peliwo 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.<\/div>\n
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Peliwo was within touching distance at 4-4 in the second set, but Sweeny pounced with a crucial break and then continued the momentum in the decider as he chases a fifth title this year alone.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt’s been a really good year,\u201d Sweeny said. \u201cI\u2019ve found some really good form after a long while without putting many good matches together.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m really just proud of myself for showing up day in and day out even though the results weren\u2019t going my way for so long. I knew I was going to get rewarded eventually. The time was coming.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHopefully I can keep building and keep the wins coming.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Second seed Polmans will be a formidable opponent after sweeping past 16-year-old Turkish rising star Mustafa Ege Sik 6-2, 6-1 in just 76 minutes.<\/div>\n
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The finals of the Wagga Wagga Tennis International #1 and Capital of Country will be played on Sunday, with the main draw for new events at each regional NSW venue to begin next week.<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katie Swan\u2019s career resurgence has her on the cusp of another title after she took down top seed Lizette Cabrera to reach the final of the Wagga Wagga Tennis International #1. \u00a0 Swan, 26, is a former United Cup representative for Great Britain who has battled a debilitating back issue before finally freeing herself of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6323,"featured_media":27358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}