Swiatek showed once again that, at the moment, he seems unbeatable: against the American Alison Riske (N.43), he barely needed an hour and a minute to win 6-0, 6-2.

When Riske got his first game of the match (in the 10th game), he celebrated almost as if he had won the game.

The 20-year-old Polish champion in Paris in the 2020 edition is in the third round of Roland Garros after giving up only four games in her first two matches and having been there on court for less than two hours in total (115 minutes).

I'm pleased with the level of tennis I'm playing at," admitted Swiatek 

the match, who could win his sixth consecutive tournament of the season in Paris.

In the third round, she will face the Montenegrin Danka Kovinic (N.96) to reach the round of 16 of the Parisian tournament and get closer to the streak of 34 consecutive wins of the American Serena Williams in 2013.

Badosa also reached that instance, but in the case of the Spanish woman, she had to suffer a lot to beat the Slovenian Kaja Juvan (N.68) in three sets, 7-5, 3-6, and 6-2, in a 2h17 match. Of duration.

"This type of match gives you a lot of confidence, and you see that you are competitive again and that you fight until the end for every point, something that is very important to me," the Spaniard said at a press conference.

"Competitive Vein"

"That competitive streak that I had lost in recent weeks has come out on the court again," congratulated the Barcelona native-born in New York 24 years ago, who started the match very well (setting up 5-2 in the first set), but everything got complicated when Juvan let go of his arm and started hitting the ball hard.

A quarterfinalist in Paris a year ago, Badosa will play for a place in the round of 16 against the Russian Veronika Kudermetova (N.29), with whom she has already faced on five occasions: in the first three, the victory was for the Russian, but in the last two, also this year, Badosa prevailed (Indian Wells and Madrid).

Swiatek, Badosa, and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (N.7) are the only Top 10 players to reach the third round of Roland Garros.

Along the way, the American Danielle Collins (N.9) and the Czech Karolina Pliskova (N.8) stayed this Thursday, who lost to the French Leolia Jeanjean, a former promise of French tennis whose career was cut short by the injuries and now, at the age of 26, he barely survives from the results in minor tournaments.