By Toby Davis
LONDON (Reuters) - Former
French Open champion Iga Swiatek stormed into the
Wimbledon fourth round on Friday as her relentless
pressure proved too much for Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu,
who managed a solitary mark on the scoreboard in a 6-1
6-0 demolition.
Poland's Swiatek,
seeded seven, arrived at Wimbledon having previously won
only one match on grass but she looked very much at home
as she suffocated her opponent from the start to reach
the last 16 with her third straight-sets victory.
The 20-year-old, who
won the Roland Garros title in 2020, dropped only eight
points on serve in the match and half of them came in
just one game.
She broke her opponent
twice to race into a 5-0 lead, before Begu finally held
serve, and then showed some grit to go with the
punishing consistency of her ground strokes when she
saved three break points to hold and take the first set.
The second set was even
more one sided as the Swiatek swept away the dying
embers of Begu's resistance to romp into the next round.
(Reporting by Toby
Davis; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
