Two-time champion Iga Swiatek continued her march at Indian Wells with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Karolina Muchova on Tuesday to succeed in the quarterfinals.
Swiatek, a former world No. 1, has dropped solely six video games since arriving to the California desert occasion and shoved apart Muchova with a near-flawless efficiency, with solely 4 errors in opposition to a dozen winners whereas by no means going through a break level.
Swiatek is aiming to grow to be the primary lady to win the 1000-level event 3 times, after serving a one-month suspension late final yr for a failed drug take a look at.
After ready by way of a rain delay, Swiatek took quick maintain of the momentum, sprinting by way of the primary 4 video games and never dropping a first-serve level within the opening set.
Muchova, who loved an impressed run to the US Open semifinals final yr after recovering from wrist surgical procedure, was unable to search out her degree within the second set because the errors piled up.
Swiatek closed it out in 57 minutes with an unreturnable serve to arrange a gathering with both Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen of China or Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, who shut out the evening session on the principle court docket.
“From the start, I felt like … I can lead and I did not make many errors firstly, so then afterward I simply did not wish to let Karo … have the ability to begin enjoying her recreation,” Swiatek advised reporters. “I am comfortable I did that until the top.”
Later Tuesday, Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, the No. 23 seed, defeated American fourth seed Jessica Pegula 5-7, 6-1, 6-2. And Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva, seeded ninth, breezed previous No. 7 Elena Rybakina 6-1, 6-2.
Info from Reuters was used on this report.