French Open 2023: Iga Swiatek secures remarkable double-bagel as she marches into fourth round in style

Top seed Iga Swiatek produced a stunning display of tennis on Saturday as an astonishing double-bagel against Xinyu Wang saw her ease into the fourth round at Roland-Garros. Swiatek is a two-time champion at Roland-Garros and holds the 2022 trophy, and also won last year’s US Open. Ad The 22-year-old is the world No.

1 and one of the favourites for this year’s tournament, with her chances only enhanced by the withdrawal of Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina earlier on Saturday morning, due to illness. Roland-GarrosFirst-set bagel puts Swiatek in total command against Wang26 MINUTES AGO Swiatek came to the tournament with two tournament wins to her name, having won the Qatar Open and Stuttgart Grand Prix in the run-up to the Grand Slam, but lost at the Madrid Open to Aryna Sabalenka in May. For her 21-year-old Chinese opponent, this was the furthest she had reached in any Grand Slam competition, and is ranked No.

80 in the world. She had beaten Rebecca Peterson on Thursday in two sets, while Iga Swiatek defeated Claire Liu in her last match to reach the third round. Rybakina withdraws from French Open moments before third-round match Gauff battles back to beat Andreeva in three sets Rune into fourth round with straight-sets victory over Olivieri Swiatek immediately broke to take the lead and then held her serve to go 2-0 clear, and she made it six straight games to bagel the first set with no difficulty.

That ease continued for the Polish youngster as she faced little resistance in the second set. The record for fastest win at Roland-Garros stands at 32 minutes, set by Steffi Graf in the 1988 French Open final, and there had not been a WTA double-bagel at a Slam since the Australian Open in 2021. It is the first double-bagel in