French Open: Perfect 10 for Iga Swiatek; Krejcikova ousts fifth seed Svitolina

Poland’s Iga Swiatek returns to Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit during their French Open third round match in Paris on Saturday. Pic/AFP

Defending champion Iga Swiatek overcame an early break to defeat Estonia's Anett Kontaveit and reach the French Open Last 16 on Saturday.

The eighth-seeded Pole won 7-6 (7/4), 6-0 to stretch her record of straight-sets victories at Roland Garros to 10 matches. Swiatek reeled off 11 of the last 13 games on Saturday and will face Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk for a place in the quarter-finals. "She had a fast start and I was late getting going," said Swiatek who had lost both her previous matches to Kontaveit.

Barbora Krejcikova knocked fifth seed Elina Svitolina out of the Roland Garros. Krejcikova reached the Last 16 for the second successive year with a 6-3, 6-2 victory and goes on to face former US Open champion Sloane Stephens, who beat 18th-seeded Karolina Muchova 6-3, 7-5. Muchova had 23 winners compared to 22 for Stephens but the Czech player made 32 unforced errors to 25 for the unseeded American.

Stephens lost the final at Roland Garros in 2018 after winning her only Grand Slam title at the US Open the year before. Sofia Kenin advanced to the fourth round for the third consecutive year by winning a seesaw match on Saturday against Jessica Pegula, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in a battle of Americans.

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