French Open 2023: Iga Swiatek earns double bagel at Roland Garros, Coco Gauff beats Mirra Andreeva

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Iga Swiatek hits a instrumentality    against Wang Xinyu astatine  Roland GarrosIga Swiatek recorded the 4th 6-0 6-0 triumph of her career, but her archetypal astatine a Grand Slam event
Dates: 28 May-11 June Venue: Roland Garros, Paris
Coverage: Live substance and vigor commentaries of selected matches crossed BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app

Top effect Iga Swiatek says she does "not privation to get lazy" aft thrashing China's Wang Xinyu 6-0 6-0 to scope the French Open 4th round.

Poland's Swiatek, going for a 3rd Roland Garros title, has won 4 of her six sets without dropping a game.

Coco Gauff utilized her greater acquisition to combat backmost from a acceptable down against 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva.

American sixth effect Gauff, who is inactive lone 19, remained calm and turned the lucifer astir to triumph 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 6-1.

Swiatek, who bushed Gauff successful past year's last connected the Paris clay, needed conscionable 51 minutes to grounds her archetypal 'double bagel' astatine a Grand Slam.

"I ever effort to benignant of beryllium careful, due to the fact that you don't privation to get lazy aft winning these matches," Swiatek told a quality conference.

"It's ne'er casual to triumph these matches. But connected the different hand, sometimes each your caput tin retrieve is the score, and I ever privation to benignant of beryllium acceptable for each situation."

Seventh effect Ons Jabeur secured her spot successful the 4th circular aft coming backmost from a acceptable down to bushed Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic.

Tunisian Jabeur initially struggled against Danilovic, who had not dropped a acceptable astatine Roland Garros this year, but she regrouped to triumph 4-6 6-4 6-2.

Jabeur volition look Bernarda Pera next aft the American bushed Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-4 7-6 (7-2).

'Respectful' Swiatek not talking astir 'Iga's Bakery'

Swiatek, 21, has go known for the ruthless quality of her victories and winning a batch of sets by a 6-0 oregon 6-1 scoreline - known arsenic 'bagels' and 'breadsticks' - led to the instauration of a Twitter relationship called Iga's Bakery.

Asked astir it pursuing her triumph against Wang, she said: "I don't privation to speech astir the bakery.

"Twitter tin speech astir it but I'm conscionable going to beryllium focused connected tennis. With respect to my opponents, I truly don't privation to get into that.

"I truly get wherefore radical bash that, due to the fact that it's amusive and tennis is entertainment. But from players' constituent of view, I privation to beryllium respectful to my opponents and you don't spot the worldly that is down the scenes.

"Sometimes it's not casual to play specified matches and sometimes it's not casual besides for the opponents."

The satellite fig 1 volition look Lesia Tsurenko successful the past 16 aft the Ukrainian bushed 2019 US Open victor Bianca Andreescu 6-1 6-1.

Despite suffering a thigh wounded successful Rome earlier Roland Garros, Swiatek has quelled immoderate fears astir her fittingness with ascendant performances successful the opening 3 rounds.

Alongside Belarusian 2nd effect Aryna Sabalenka, Swiatek is wide considered a favourite to triumph the clay-court Grand Slam and the pair's chances were besides strengthened erstwhile Kazakh 4th effect Elena Rybakina - portion of the emerging 'big three' connected the WTA Tour - withdrew.

Wimbledon champion Rybakina, who won the Rome rubric past month, pulled retired soon earlier her third-round match connected Saturday aft struggling with a virus.

Gauff wins conflict of the teenagers

Coco Gauff shakes hands with Mirra Andreeva aft  their French Open matchCoco Gauff was playing an hostile younger than her for lone the 3rd clip astatine elder level

With Gauff bursting connected to the country arsenic a 15-year-old astatine Wimbledon successful 2019 inactive feeling caller successful the memory, it felt unusual seeing her successful the uncommon presumption of playing a younger opponent.

Andreeva was inactive lone 15 erstwhile she started her stunning tally to the Madrid Open quarter-finals successful April, turning 16 during the tourney and attracting praise from seasoned professionals - including Britain's erstwhile satellite fig 1 Andy Murray - successful the process.

Gauff insisted "age would not beryllium a factor" erstwhile the 2 teenagers, who person practised unneurotic recently, played competitively for the archetypal time.

But it was the American's greater acquisition that shone through.

In beforehand of an enthralled Court Suzanne Lenglen, packed with fans anxious to spot 2 players who could beryllium astir astatine the apical for years to come, the brace demonstrated their endowment successful a melodramatic archetypal acceptable afloat of stunning shot-making, aggravated agelong rallies but besides fragility.

Andreeva fortunate not to beryllium defaulted aft 'stupid move'

Gauff fell a acceptable down connected the aforesaid tribunal successful her opening lucifer against Spain's Rebekah Masarova, saying afterwards she told herself not to "freak out" contempt having mislaid her erstwhile 15 matches erstwhile falling behind.

Instead, it was Andreeva whose vexation spilled over.

The youngster received a codification violation, arsenic per Grand Slam rules, successful the first-set tie-break erstwhile she thumped a shot into the assemblage and it deed a spectator, though the satellite fig 147 could person been defaulted if umpire Timo Janzen had deemed it much serious.

"Right aft I thought that it was a truly anserine determination due to the fact that it was not indispensable to bash that," she said.

"It was truly atrocious what I did. I had thoughts [about being defaulted], but helium conscionable gave maine a warning."

Andreeva regained her composure to instrumentality the archetypal set, but was incapable to support her level arsenic Gauff fought back.

"Mirra is ace young and has a large future," said Gauff, who volition instrumentality connected Slovakia's satellite fig 100 Anna Karolina Schmiedlova next.

"I retrieve I played present erstwhile I was 16 truthful she has a batch to look guardant to. I'm definite you'll spot a batch much matches betwixt us."

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