World No.1 Iga Swiatek of Poland clinched a spot in the third round of Wimbledon for the third straight season with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo, here on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Making her first appearance on Centre Court this year, top-seeded Swiatek won her first career meeting with 84th-ranked Sorribes Tormo after just 70 minutes of play. It is Swiatek's 40th match-win of the 2023 season.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I feel really confident. I was able to kind of do everything tactically as I wanted to, as my coach wanted me to do, in the first and second round. Yeah, I feel confident. I'm going to try to kind of keep it going," Swiatek said in her post-match press conference.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The 22-year old Swiatek was the more aggressive of the two, as she used her fiery groundstrokes to successfully rally past Sorribes Tormo's world-class footspeed and defense. Swiatek fired 26 winners in the match, compared to the Spaniard's three.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the third round, Swiatek will face either Diane Parry of France or No.30 seed Petra Martic of Croatia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk overcame rain and the loss of the first set 6-0 to defeat No.8 seed Maria Sakkari in the first round.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sakkari, playing her first-round match a day late, produced a scintillating first set -- only to lose to Kostyuk 0-6, 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The unseeded Kostyuk beat Sakkari for the first time in three tries -- and a Top 10 player for the first time in her career. Previously, Kostyuk had been 0-for-14, including five such matches in 2023 alone. Perhaps that was why when it ended, the unseeded 21-year-old from Ukraine fell to her knees, sobbing tears of joy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n