Garbine Muguruza knocked out of the Australian Open by Alize Cornet, Iga Swiatek eases through

Garbine Muguruza has been knocked out of the Australian Open in straight sets, losing to Alize Cornet 6-3 6-3. The 2020 Australian Open finalist had not answer to Cornet's aggression form the baseline and it is the first time the Spaniard has fallen at the second round since 2018. Ad/> For Cornet, the 31-year-old will be playing in the third round for the first time since 2018.

Australian OpenAustralian Open order of play: Day 4 — Murray, Raducanu lead GB charge, Kyrgios show rolls on12 HOURS AGO «I feel amazing,» Cornet said afterwards. «I think I played a good match out there today and my state of mind was perfect. My mind was super focused on what I had to do and I felt in a bubble.

You always have to play such a good match against Garbine. She's such a fighter and even at the end I was one set, one break up and I knew she would not give up a point. »In two days it's my birthday so I think that is the best gift I can give to myself.

«Hopefully my experience can help me in the next round even though I have no idea who I will be playing because when I saw the draw I really stopped at Garbine and was like 'OK, let's see what is going to happen.'» /> Cornet disrupted the No 3 seed's rhythm early on and raced into a 3-0 lead in the opening set. Muguruza was forced to rescue a further six break points as Cornet continued to pressure and eventually took the opener on her fourth set point. Muguruza accumulated a high number of unforced errors in the second set and was unable to muster up a break point herself.