Iga Swiatek underlined her credentials as a agency favorite for the French Open title on Saturday after serving up double bagels but once more with a 6-0 6-0 win, however the world primary refused to be swept up within the “Iga’s Bakery” social media craze.
A ruthless Swiatek thrashed Wang Xinyu with out dropping a sport to cruise into the fourth spherical, the second time in a month she had received by the identical scoreline after beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Rome.
The 22-year-old Pole has dropped solely eight video games in three matches in Paris this yr, whereas 9 opponents have misplaced at the least one set 6-0 to her this yr.
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Saturday’s end result was no totally different as she beat Wang in 51 minutes. However when a query about “Iga’s Bakery” was put to Swiatek after her victory, her smile vanished earlier than the highest seed stated she needed to stay respectful to her opponents.
“Look, I don’t wish to actually speak about that. I actually get why folks do this as a result of it’s enjoyable and tennis is leisure and every part,” Swiatek informed reporters.
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“However from the gamers’ viewpoint, I wish to be respectful to my opponents. You don’t see the stuff that’s behind the scenes – typically it’s not simple to play such matches and typically it’s not simple additionally for the opponents.
“I don’t wish to discuss in regards to the bakery. Twitter can speak about it, however I’m simply going to be focussed on tennis.”
Swiatek will subsequent face Lesia Tsurenko, who misplaced 6-2 6-0 to her in Rome final month. The Ukrainian described enjoying the primary as “one of many largest challenges on tour”.
“I simply had a match towards her in Rome, which was good simply to really feel how she’s enjoying and to really feel the velocity of her pictures,” Tsurenko stated.
“It was a very good lesson for me, so I’ll attempt to play higher this time.”