Paris: Iga Swiatek cranked up her pursuit of a third successive French Open crown on Sunday by storming into the quarter-finals with a 40-minute blitz, while Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner attempt to keep their title bids on track. World number one Swiatek demolished Russia's Anastasia Potapova 6-0, 6-0 and will go on to play Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, the fifth seed who ended the run of Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic in straight sets. "It went pretty quickly," said Swiatek, who dropped a mere 10 points in the shortest completed match of her career.
"I was really focused and in the zone. I wasn't looking at the score so I continued working on my game." The 23-year-old Pole's quickfire victory came on the same Court Philippe Chatrier where men's number one Novak Djokovic had completed his third round win at 3:07 a.
m., the latest finish to a French Open match after more than four hours and five sets. Swiatek, who saved a match point against Naomi Osaka in the second round, is a red-hot favourite to lift the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen and become only the fourth woman to win four Roland Garros titles in the Open era.
She is looking to become just the second woman after Serena Williams to complete the clay-court treble of Madrid, Rome and French Opens in the same season. US Open champion Coco Gauff made light work of Elisabetta Cocciaretto, sweeping past the world number 51 from Italy 6-1, 6-2 in exactly an hour. Cocciaretto had taken down two seeds to reach the last 1.
