Iga Swiatek lost one round, but advanced to the quarters in Paris

Swiatek has remained on a series of 20 consecutive winning sets: he has not lost a single set since April 23 in the semi-finals in Stuttgart.

With this victory, the 20-year-old Pole still won his 32nd consecutive game, which makes him the third player to chain the most wins in the 21st century behind the siblings. Williams (Venus 35, Serena 34) and tied with Justine Henin.

Zheng, who participated in his first Roland-Garros at the age of 19, however, gave difficulty to the tournament winner in 2020. Leading 3-0 in the opening round, Swiatek saw the Chinese score 5 -5 then forced him to a tiebreak after five unchanged innings.

And in the tiebreaker, which was again beaten by world No. 1 (5-2), Zheng chained five points to win after 1 h 22 min, a longer duration than most of the last matches played by the Polish.

But then steamroller Swiatek kicked in again, as his opponent, who looked physically dull, had to call a medical time-out to 3-0 against him in the second set.

Returning with a large bandage on his right thigh, Zheng did not win even a single game until the third half of the final set. After removing his bandage that seemed to bother him, he caught up a bit, but not enough to worry Swiatek again, who won after 2 hours 45 minutes of play.

I’m really happy that I got back in the game after the frustrating first round.said Pole after his victory, paying tribute to his opponent. He played amazing tennis, I was really surprised by some of his shots. So I’m really happy that I’m still in the tournament.

In the next round, Swiatek will face American Jessica Pegula, 11th in the world and second highest ranked player in the tournament after her.

Good day for Kasatkina

Earlier, Russia’s Daria Kasatkina advanced to the quarter-finals of a grand slam tournament for the first time in four years after ousting 30th-placed Camila Giorgi. He won straight sets 6-2 in 80 minutes.

Twentieth racket in the world, it still hasn’t lost a round since the tournament began. He left fewer games in his first three rounds than favorite Iga Swiatek (10 against 12).

This time again, he left only crumbs to the Italian, who achieved a superb performance in the previous round by leaving behind 7th player in the world Aryna Sabalenka.

I like to play in clay, says Kasatkina, 25. I was a little nervous before going here, but now I feel better and I’m happy with the game I’m playing.

She will face her compatriot Veronika Kudermetova (29th) in the quarterfinals on center court, who fell from the American Madison Keys (22nd) in three sets of 1-6, 6-3 and 6-1 in 1 h 41 min. This will be his first quarter in a grand slam tournament.

In 2018, Kasatkina reached the quarter-finals in Paris and then Wimbledon in a row.

Since then, he has never reached the second week of a major tournament. This season, he came to Paris with a good series of 9 wins in his last 11 games, most notably reaching the semi-finals of the Italian Open in Rome.