LONDON (Reuters) -Poland’s Iga Swiatek strode imperiously into the fourth round at Wimbledon on Saturday, with a dominant 6-2 6-3 win over an apparently out-of-sorts Danielle Collins.
The former world number one, eager to show she can be a force on grass, broke the American’s serve in the third game of the match to set the tone, adding another break in the fifth and wrapping up the set with a big serve.
Collins, who beat 24-year-old Swiatek at the Italian Open in May, offered some moments of resistance through her own powerful serve and swinging backhand but she failed to find her range, spraying shots long and wide to rack up 25 unforced errors. She was broken again in the first game of the second set.
Despite winning five Grand Slams, Swiatek has never progressed beyond the quarter-finals here and she did not ease the pressure on Collins, claiming victory on the 31-year-old American’s serve with a forehand winner to set up a clash with Denmark’s Clara Tauson, seeded 23, in the fourth round on Monday.
(Reporting by Clare Lovell; editing by Clare Fallon)
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