Swiatek wins 6-0 6-0 in 40 minutes to reach Paris quarters

Iga Swiatek took conscionable 40 minutes to registry a crushing 6-0 6-0 triumph complete Anastasia Potapova and scope nan French Open quarter-finals.

The two-time defending champion showed why she is nan overwhelming favourite for nan title pinch a relentlessly ascendant performance.

Top seed Swiatek won 48 points - against 10 won by world number 41 Potapova - and did not look a azygous break point.

"It went beautiful quickly," Swiatek said.

"I was really focused and successful nan zone. I wasn't looking astatine nan score, truthful I continued moving connected my game."

She will look either Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova aliases Serb qualifier Olga Danilovic next.

The stats show astir of nan story: Swiatek collapsed Potapova's service six times, made conscionable 2 unforced errors and held service to emotion 5 times.

She took nan first group successful 19 minutes and only showed vexation erstwhile she missed 2 break points connected Potapova's service successful nan 2nd set, earlier taking nan third.

It was a acold outcry from her second-round lucifer against chap four-time awesome victor Naomi Osaka, wherever she had to prevention a lucifer constituent earlier progressing successful 3 reliable sets.

Should she clasp her title, Swiatek will beryllium nan first female since Justine Henin successful 2007 to triumph nan French Open singles 3 times successful a row.

Swiatek is connected an 18-match triumph streak astatine Roland Garros, having not mislaid since nan 2021 quarter-finals.

She is besides connected a 16-match winning streak connected clay courts this season, having claimed large titles successful Madrid and Rome earlier arriving successful Paris.