Rome tournament | Swiatek, expeditious, rushes into the 3rd round

(Rome) World No.1 Iga Swiatek spent a little over an hour on the Central of the Foro Italico to secure her ticket for the 3^e tour of the WTA 1000 in Rome against the American Bernarda Pera (71^e), swept 6-0, 6-2, Thursday.

Swiatek, winner of the WTA 1000 in Madrid last weekend, will face Kazakh Yulia Putintseva (41) in the next round.^e) who got the better of the American Sloane Stephens (35^e) 6-3, 6-2.

The Pole won the Roman tournament in 2021 and 2022, but fell last year in the quarter-finals against Kazakh Elena Rybakina who then won the title.