Swiatek gets past Raducanu to as quarter-final line-up is set in Indian Wells

World No 1 and defending champion Iga Swiatek, of Poland, defeated Emma Raducanu in straight sets to reach the last eight of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Tuesday night.

Swiatek needed one hour and 24 minutes to beat the 2021 US Open champion 6-3, 6-1 and score her second win over the young Brit.

Swiatek, who is all set to complete one year on top of the world rankings, will play Romanian Sorana Cirstea next.

Ahead of her win on Tuesday, the 21-year-old Pole won against American Claire Liu (6-0, 6-1) and Canadian Bianca Andreescu, the No 32 seed (6-3, 7-6 (1)).

Raducanu, ranked No 77, beat Montenegrin Danka Kovinic (6-2, 6-3), Pole Magda Linette, the No 20 seed (7-6 (3), 6-2) and Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 13 seed (6-1, 2-6, 6-4) in the previous rounds of the Indian Wells tournament.

With this, the quarter-final line-up is set at Indian Wells on the women’s side:

• [1] Iga Swiatek vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Karolina Muchova vs. [10] Elena Rybakina
• [7] Maria Sakkari vs. [15] Peta Kvitova
• [6] Coco Gauff vs. [2] ArynaSabalenka

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other round of 16 results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Elena Rybakina (10) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-3, 6-0
• Sorana Cirstea beat Caroline Garcia (5): 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
• Petra Kvitova (15) beat Jessica Pegula (3): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (11)
• Karolina Muchova beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-4
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Barbora Krejcikova (16): 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
• Maria Sakkari (7) beat Karolina Pliskova (17): 6-4, 5-7, 6-3

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