Two matches after the longest French Open match of her career, Iga Swiatek played her shortest one.
Swiatek dispatched 41st-ranked Anastasia Potapova 6-0, 6-0 — a double bagel in tennis terminology — in 40 minutes to reach a fifth consecutive French Open quarterfinal.
“I was just really focused and really in the zone,” Swiatek said. “I wasn’t looking at the score, so I just continued playing my game and working on the stuff I wanted to work on. Yeah, it went pretty quickly, pretty weird.”
She next gets fifth-seeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova, the Wimbledon champion. No. 3 seed Coco Gauff and No. 8 Ons Jabeur also advanced Sunday to meet in the quarterfinals.
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Swiatek won 48 of the 58 points in Sunday’s match, the second 6-0, 6-0 win of her French Open career. She is 32-2 at Roland Garros since her 2019 debut.
Before Sunday, her shortest French Open match was a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Simona Halep in 2019 in 45 minutes, according to Tennis Abstract.
Her longest match came this year in the second round, a 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5 win over fellow four-time major champ Naomi Osaka in 2 hours, 57 minutes.
Swiatek is three match wins from becoming the fourth and youngest woman in the professional era (since 1968) to win four French Open singles titles.
In the men’s draw, No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz and No. 9 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced to play each other in the quarterfinals.
The French Open continues later Sunday with live coverage at 12 p.m. ET on NBC, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app and Peacock.
