Iga Swiatek’s bid to win an unprecedented third women’s title at the BNP Paribas Open remains very much alive. In fact, it looks like she’ll be difficult to stop.

The Pole put in another strong performance to reach the semifinals, beating Qinwen Zheng 6-3, 6-3 in a rematch of their Olympic semifinal last year. Zheng won that day to end Swiatek’s 25-match winning streak at Roland Garros in Paris — and claimed gold — but the World No. 2 fared better on a chilly, blustery day in the desert.

“I’m happy that I was pushing until the end,” Swiatek said on court. “For sure it was a weird match with all the breaks and everything but I wanted to be composed and really focused, and I’m glad I did that.”

Zheng, though, did win six games — the number of games Swiatek had dropped combined in her previous three outings. Still, Swiatek became the first player since Novak Djokovic in 2011 to drop 12 games or fewer in reaching the final four in Indian Wells.

Her winning tally at Indian Wells resembles her mastery at the French Open, where she is a four-time champ. By downing the eighth seed, Swiatek improved to a sizzling 22-2 in (her) Tennis Paradise.

Zheng — who was trying to become the second Chinese player after Li Na to make the semis in Indian Wells — contested all three of her previous matches at night.

Did playing in the day prove to be a factor? Only last year’s Australian Open finalist will know. Zheng surely hoped to get off to a good start but Swiatek jumped out to a 3-0 lead on the higher bouncing hard courts she’s so adept on.

Zheng, however, might have won the rally of the match in the fourth game. The two raced side to side to get to balls during a lung busting rally prior to Swiatek missing a backhand. The 22-year-old seemed to be working herself into the contest, only to drop serve from 40-0 to trail 5-1.

Guess what happened to start the second? Zheng was again broken from 40-0. A rain delay of a few minutes at 5-1 in the second set didn’t spark a complete turnaround, despite another late mini rally in a set from Zheng.

Andreeva to face Swiatek

Swiatek will face Mirra Andreeva for the second straight tournament after the 17-year-old beat Elina Svitolina 7-5, 6-3. Andreeva defeated Swiatek in Dubai on the way to becoming the youngest winner of a WTA 1000 tournament since the series began in 2009.

In increasing her winning streak to 10 matches, she achieved another milestone — becoming the youngest women’s semifinalist in Indian Wells since Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in 2009.

“Of course, I knew the match was going to be tough,” said Andreeva. “I watched her play so many times when I was younger so I kind of knew what to expect. “I knew that she was going to fight for every ball and I kind of tried to overfight her. I tried to play my tennis. But it wasn’t easy in these conditions. So I’m just super happy that I managed to win today.”

The ninth seed, though, began on the back foot against Svitolina, a former Top 10 regular now ranked 23rd. Svitolina earned the first two break points at 2-1 in the pair’s first meeting but Andreeva fended the 30-year-old off. On the second one, she ran the Ukrainian all around the court before finishing with a backhand winner. Andreeva didn’t see a break point until 5-5 — but capitalized, even after not putting away a simple looking shot at the net on break point.

Then again, nothing was that simple in the heavy wind. Undaunted, she won the next two points to break for 6-5. Her mixture of power and guile — including slicing forehands — paid dividends and Andreeva led 3-1 in the second.

But Svitolina — one of two moms in the quarterfinals along with Belinda Bencic — leveled for 3-3 after Andreeva almost but couldn’t quite dig out of a 0-40 hole. Andreeva quickly regrouped for 4-3 although was given a helping hand by Svitolina, who struck back to back double faults.

Overall, Svitolina won just 39 percent of her second serve points and didn’t get as much joy behind her first serve. Meanwhile, Andreeva won more than 80 percent of her own first serve points.