currently ongoing and iga swiatek is through to the quarterfinals for the first time, but ekaterina alexandrovae world number one needed neary 2.5 hours to finally oust the russian, in a match that finished after 1.00am local time. 6—4, 6—7, 6—3 was the scoreline. next up for the pole is 27th seed petra martic. philadelphia took the first game of their second—round nba playoff series against the boston celtics 119—115, despite the 76ers being without star manjoel embiid. stepping up in embiid's absence was james harden. he poured in 45 points, matching his playoff career high. he had seven three—pointers in total, with this one basicallly sealing the win to extend their lead to four points. harden says philly will win without embiid if they have to. we didn't come into the game expecting to lose. we are here to win. even after this game, i said to the guys, don't be too happy. that is the mindset we have as a unit and whetherjoe comes back or not, we will be ready to go. obviously he is everything to this team, but whoever is on the floor, we've got to go and win the game, and that is what we d