The reigning champion IGA Swiatek approached an unprecedented third part of an Indian WTA Consecutive WTA on Sunday, crushing Dayana Yastremska 6-0, 6-2 to reach the fourth round.
The 65 -minute victory of Swiatek set the tone for a day that saw Daniil Medvedev spend only 10 minutes on the field before the opponent in difficulty Alex Michelsen withdrew.
Swiatek, the world’s number two in Poland, was in full control against the hit Ukrainian Yastremska, swallowing freely when she won the first 10 games.
She converted six of her 11 chances of rupture and did not face a break point itself and it was practically finished when Yastremska went on the set with victories in her last two service games.
Swiatek then faces the Czech Karolina Muchova, who beat compatriot Katerina Siniakova 7-5, 6-1.
By dragging 3-5 in the first set, Muchova won 10 of the 11 remaining games to win the victory.
“It is always difficult to finish a match like that,” said Swiatek. “But I am happy to have obtained my intensity the last match and closed it with confidence, because it was certainly a big match.”
The fourth seeded female Jessica Pegula of the United States, fresh out of her first WTA title of the year in Austin, was another quick winner, storing the Wang Xinyu 6-2, 6-1 in China in just 62 minutes.
Pegula will then face Elina Svitolina from Ukraine, a winner 6-2, 6-4 against Danielle Collins.
Mirra Andreeva Russian, 17, who came out of a title in Dubai, made the front page. She faced Clara Tauson from Denmark – The woman thatreeva beat in the Dubai final to become the youngest champion of the WTA 1000.
The winner of this match will face the 2023 Indian Wells champion, Elena Rybakina, who beat Katie Boulter 6-0, 7-0.
Medvedev titled male programming in the combined event ATP Masters and WTA 1000, but he was barely underway when Michelson, 20, retired because of a disease after abandoning the first two games.
“Food poisoning or something like that, these things happen,” said Medvedev, who was heading for the training courts to deactor for a confrontation in the fourth round with the 10th seeded American Tommy Paul.
Paul beat Cameron Norrie, British winner of the Indian Wells in 2021, now classified 77th in the world, 6-3, 7-5.
– Gladiator –
Stefanos Tsisipas, seeded, was at the top of his first title in almost a year in Dubai, beat Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-3 in a revenge of their quarterfinals of Dubai last week.
Tsitsipas has lost only eight points on his service when he went wrong with the Italian with a variety of sport strokes, breaking him three times on the way to victory in 68 minutes.
After months in the slump, Tsisipas said that he was enjoying a new mental approach to the game.
“I approach these matches with the determination and the desire to leave everything on the field,” said Tsisipas. “I just feel like I want to go out on the field and be a gladiator, and that’s how I approach every match I play.”
Tsitsipas will then face the 12th seeded Dane Holger Rune, who had to dig deeply for a 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 victory against Ugo Humbert in France.
Tallon Griekspoor, the world number 43 in the Netherlands which shocked the world’s number two and the seeded Alexander Zverev in the second round, won his big victory with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 victory on the 29th head of France Giovanni Mpeshi Perricard.
Griekspoor pulled 10 AS, dominating the first equality break after a first exchange of breaks.
He did not face a break in the second set, breaking his 21-year-old opponent on the 5-2 path and obtaining victory on his second match point.
Griekspoor needed an hour and 16 minutes to guarantee victory, but in a season when the first set fell has become an alarming habit which was quite fast.
“It’s good to win a match in less than an hour and a half,” he said.
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