The reigning champion IGA Swiatek was at home and dried in Rainy Indian Wells on Tuesday, moving in the quarter-final with a 6-1, 6-1 victory against Karolina Muchova.
The world’s number two in Poland only needed 57 minutes to Ranger Muchova, who led him to three sets in the final of the France 2023 Open.
Swiatek did not face a breaking point because for the third consecutive match, she only granted two games.
Swiatek, whose first four Indian appearances Wells gave titles in 2022 and 2024, could become the first woman to lift the trophy three times – and to join Martina Navratilova as the only woman to win consecutive titles in the Californian desert.
She said that the showers who delayed her 55 -minute match were an additional spur to finish it quickly, especially after the rain returned near the end of the competition.
“In the last two games, it was already a little slippery, but I really wanted to finish,” she said. “So, I played a little more risky, but the shots were still in it.
“I am happy to have closed it, for sure, because I knew that this big cloud came,” she said.
A short rainy time in the first match was barely an overview of the Denmark Holger Rune in a 6-4, 6-4 victory on the Greek Stefanos Tsisipas in good.
Tsitsipas was released from his first title in almost a year in Dubai last month, but Rune, ranked 13th, broke the sequence of victories-victoires of the number of seven matches of the number new number with an aggressive match which included 22 winners.
Up 4-3 In the second set, Rune saved a breakdown with a dazzling blow between the legs, returning to the basic line after a tsisipas lob and striking the twener which dropped perfectly to deny the Greek.
“The Twener – This is the first thing I will check when I return to my phone,” said Rune.
Rune, 21, has had trouble since his race at the fourth round at Australian Open, but he improved his record against Tsisipas at 4-0.
– mentally very good –
“Mentally, I was very, very good,” said Rune. “I think that is what made the difference – how much I could remain composed. Obviously, Stef is back in shape, so yes, it was a cool battle.”
The rune faces the 43rd row of Tallon Griekspoor, who upset the head of the head Alexander Zverev in the second round.
Griekspoor also left a late start and awaited a second set in his 7-6 victory (7/4) 6-1 against the Japanese qualifier Yosuke Watanuki and the world number four women Jessica Pegula and Elina Svitolina were a match in their third set when the game was again interrupted.
The world number six Daniil Medvedev was to open the night session against the American Tommy Paul in a revenge match of their semi-final last year.
Russia Medvedev won this match to reach its second consecutive final of the Indian Wells, where it lost against Carlos Alcaraz for the second consecutive year.
Paul is one of the five American men in the fourth round. Among them, Marcos Giron, without a seeded, was also in action on Tuesday taking the 20th seed for Arthur France on Tuesday.
In other female matches, 2023 champion Elena Rybakina faced the 17 -year -old Russian sensation, Mirra Andreeva and that Zheng Qinwen, ninth in China, faced Marta Kostyuk Ukrainian.
Andreeva beat the former Wimbledon champion, seventh, Rybakina in the semi-finals last month in Dubai on the way to become the youngest player to win a WTA 1000 tournament.
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