Indian Wells: Iga Swiatek beats Karolina Muchova to reach quarter-finals
Defending champion Iga Swiatek beat India Wells quarterfinals with Karolina Muchova 6-1 6-1.
Poland’s Swiatek bid became the first woman to win three times in the California Championship, and he also won the championship in 2022.
Swiatek’s match against Muchova was postponed for nearly an hour due to the rain, but then it took her only 57 minutes to get the dominant victory as she didn’t face a single breakpoint.
The second-place world rankings fell just six games on its way to reaching the last eight games, and will face China’s eighth seed Zheng Qinwen or next Ukraine’s 18th seed Marta Kostyuk.
The 23-year-old five-time Grand Slam champion is the first woman to reach the Indian Wells quarterfinals for four consecutive years since Karolina Pliskova, who has achieved a feat between 2016 and 2019.
