Swiatek overwhelms Raducanu to reach Australian Open last 16

No 2 seed Iga Swiatek produced her best performance of the opening week as she dominated Britain’s Emma Raducanu 6-1, 6-0 to advance to the last 16 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Saturday.

Swiatek hit 24 winners and didn’t face a break point on her serve as she raced through to a clash with the winner of the match between German lucky loser Eva Lys and Romanian Jaqueline Cristian.

“Really great, I felt very confident.” Swiatek said, assessing her performance. “I hit some shots I was like, oh, that’s what I practice for. That’s why at the end I could go for even more.

“From the beginning I felt like I was playing well and my hand was fast. I’m really happy with the way I played.”

The Pole won against Katerina Siniakova (6-3, 6-4) and Slovak Rebecca Sramkova (6-0, 6-2) ahead of her victory.

Raducanu, ranked No 61, won against Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 26 seed (7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)) and American Amanda Anisimova (6-3, 7-5) in her first two matches.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):

• Madison Keys vs. Danielle Collins
• Elina Svitolina vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Elena Rybakina vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Eva Lys vs. Jaqueline Cristian: saturday
• Emma Navarro vs. Ons Jabeur: saturday
• Olga Danilovic beat Jessica Pegula (7): 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Leylah Fernandez (30): 6-4, 6-2
• Belinda Bencic beat Naomi Osaka: 7-6 (3) ret.
• Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Magdalena Frech (23): 6-2, 1-6, 6-2
• Paula Badosa (11) beat Marta Kostyuk (17): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Clara Tauson: 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Donna Vekic (18) beat Diana Shnaider (12): 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 7-5
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-1, 6-2