It was looking like a long night for Iga Swiatek.

She was out of sorts, unable to find a rhythm.

She dropped five of the first six games of her third-round match against No. 29 seed Anna Kalinskaya of Russia.

Swiatek’s fifth consecutive Grand Slam of at least reaching the Round of 16 appeared to be in jeopardy.

Then, everything changed.

Swiatek, the No. 2 seed from Poland, found her form.

Not only did she advance, but she found a way to win that opening set, moving on with a gritty 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory Saturday at Arthur Ashe Stadium. 4

“Anna was playing great. She was playing all these risky balls, like she once did against me in Dubai. I was trying to make fewer mistakes,” Swiatek said in her on-court interview after reaching the second week at the U.S. Open for the fifth con

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