Iga Swiatek continued her sensational profitable kind at Indian Wells by crushing Karolina Muchova 6-1 6-1 to achieve the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open.
Swiatek brushed apart the Czech fifteenth seed in simply 57 minutes and has marched into the final eight for the lack of solely six video games in whole over three matches.
Second seed Swiatek has now received her final 16 matches within the California desert in straight units together with her semi-final defeat to Elena Rybakina two years in the past her solely blemish since 2021.
Swiatek will face the winner of the match between Qinwen Zheng and Marta Kostyuk on Thursday.
Annabel Croft talking on Sky Sports activities Tennis: “It wasn’t a lot of a contest proper from the phrase go when she was damaged in that opening sport. She hadn’t bought sufficient first serves in and it type of went from dangerous to worse the place she struggled to get on the scoreboard.
“She did effectively to get the 2 video games she did to be trustworthy with you. I simply assume these circumstances didn’t swimsuit Muchova in any respect. She could not maintain the ball going or stick with Swiatek in these gradual baseline exchanges.
“Swiatek looks so comfortable. She’s not rushed, she’s balanced on all the groundstrokes, she creates the angles and she is rock solid at the back.”
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