Roland Garros 2024: Swiatek, from rosco to rosco until 90: double 6-0 to Potapova and quarterfinals of Roland Garros in her shortest match

Novak Djokovic needed 4 hours and 29 minutes to reach the round of 16 at Roland Garros last morning after being forced to the fifth set by Lorenzo Musetti.

Hours later, at the Philippe Chatrier, the same court that Djokovic had played, Iga Swiatek moved to the quarterfinals of the tournament after crushing Anastasia Potapova, by a double 6-0, in just 40 minutes.

Iga repeats the double rosco from last year’s third round with China’s Xinyu Wang. Before her, only Gabriela Sabatini (1992-1993) and Mary Pierce (1993-94) had achieved such a large score in two consecutive editions of the French Open.

It is the eighth 6-0 of the world number 1 this season and the thirty-first in the last year and a half for a total of 90.

His tyranny finds no comparison. From the beginning of 2022, has inflicted 6-0 or 6-1 in more than 49 percent of the matches played.

Swiatek, champion of the last two editions of Roland Garros, has 16 consecutive wins without failure on the clay court tour that has allowed her to win the Mutua Madrid Open, Rome and reach the penultimate round of the clay court. .

The Pole, at 22 years old, boasts a privileged concentration worked since his formative time with his psychologist, Daria Abramowicz. “I try not to lose concentration at any time,” confesses the best tennis player on the planet.