BEIJING — Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek, on Monday, defeated Camila Osorio for her four-hundredth profession win and superior to the fourth spherical on the China Open.
Swiatek, who turned the primary participant to register 25 or extra wins at WTA-1000 occasions for 3 consecutive seasons along with her straight-sets victory of Yuan Yue within the third spherical, confirmed no indicators of slowing down as she dismantled her Colombian opponent 6-0 within the first set, earlier than Osorio retired from the match within the opening sport of the second set.
Osorio took a medical timeout. Then, after serving a double fault to fall behind 0-40 within the opening sport of the second set, she was compelled to withdraw.
“For positive, I am sorry for Camila, as a result of she’s all the time giving her one hundred pc,” Swiatek mentioned. “She instructed me she acquired injured originally of the match. It is all the time fairly unhappy to see that as a result of we wish to simply compete. She wasn’t in a position to. However general, like moreover that, I really feel like I performed good within the first set and actually used my sport to push Camila.”
Prime-seeded Swiatek — who received final week’s Korea Open in Seoul and has additionally received the French Open 4 instances and the US Open as soon as amongst her six Grand Slam singles titles — subsequent performs American Emma Navarro.
In earlier third-round matches Monday, fourth-seeded Mirra Andreeva beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-1 and Marta Kostyuk beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 6-2. Navarro was main Lois Boisson 6-2, 1-0 when the French participant retired from the match.
Data from The Related Press contributed to this report.
