Swiatek continued her quest to complete a career Grand Slam as she cruised past Australian qualifier Maddison Inglis to move one step closer to creating a piece of tennis history at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n
The Australian Open is the only major missing from the world number two’s trophy cabinet.<\/p>\n
Still focused on improving her semi-final run in last year’s tournament, Swiatek took control of her fourth-round match against last-standing qualifier Inglis on Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n
But it was not complete control for the six-time Grand Slam champion, who struggled with her serve and unforced errors once again.<\/p>\n
She only got 56% of her first serves in and made a total of 19 unforced errors across the two sets – which lasted one hour and 13 minutes – but could not stop hitting winners.<\/p>\n
Despite still searching for her usual level, Swiatek executed a 31-minute bagel – a 6-0 triumph – in the first set against the world number 168.<\/p>\n
But the Pole’s chase for a seventh Grand Slam trophy never looked in doubt as she moved through the gears to secure a 6-0 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n
“I felt pretty confident from the beginning,” Swiatek said. “I felt like the pace of the ball was different to the last round, so I needed to adjust my legs and be really precise with my footwork.<\/p>\n
“I’m happy that I went for it today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiatek continued her quest to complete a career Grand Slam as she cruised past Australian qualifier Maddison Inglis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-431300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}