World No.1 Iga Swiatek loved a double bagel for breakfast in Paris, beating Anastasia Potapova 6-Zero, 6-Zero to succeed in the quarter-finals of the French Open.
The three-time champion took to the courtroom an hour earlier, at 11am native time, as organizers attempt to resume this system after all of the rain delays.
And Swiatek wanted solely 40 minutes, one of many shortest matches within the historical past of Roland Garros, to ship the Russian.
She hit simply two unforced errors to Potapova's 19 and received 94 % of her first serve factors.
Of the 58 factors performed within the match, the 23-year-old Potapova received simply 10.
“I used to be actually targeted, within the zone and not likely wanting on the rating, and yeah, it went fairly quick, fairly bizarre,” Swiatek stated.
“As a result of we performed very early with the roof open, it's at all times a bit completely different, however it's not too scorching but. It doesn't really feel like summer season in Europe, however we'll see how it’s in two days.”
Potapova was enjoying within the second week of a Grand Slam for the primary time in her profession, however Swiatek took full management of the sport and gave her opponent no time to breathe between a flurry of factors.
Potapova attacked Swiatek's serve with the odd alternative to win a few winners, however the Pole's near-perfect pictures left the Russian with no solutions and the highest seed wrapped up the primary set in 19 minutes.
The group inside Courtroom Philippe-Chatrier tried their greatest to cheer Potapova on, however Swiatek checked out ease, forcing the Russian into extra errors as the highest seed consolidated her early break.
The one drawback Swiatek had was the swirling wind on the job, the roof lastly left open after a number of days of rain.
Swiatek finally put her former junior rival Potapova out of her distress and the world quantity 41 hurried off the courtroom. Swiatek will face the Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova within the quarterfinals.
The 2019 Roland Garros runner-up received 6-Four 6-2 within the fourth spherical over Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic.
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