By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday January 20, 2025
The second-seeded Pole rocked past German lucky loser Eva Lys to book her second career Australian Open quarterfinal appearance.
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Five-time grand slam champion Iga Swiatek of Poland continues her quest for a career best performance at the Australian open.

She was ruthless on Monday night inside Rod Laver Arena as she sailed past German lucky loser Eva Lys 6-0, 6-1 to book her second quarterfinal appearance in Melbourne.
Lys had a charmed first week at the Australian open, where she entered the main draw as a last-second fill-in and became the first women’s singles lucky loser to reach the second week since 1988.
If she was living the dream in week one, the nightmare quickly interrupted her in week two.There's no one better at smothering her opponent with a steady diet of torqued topspin than Swiatek, and she is getting better with every round in Melbourne.
“She’s just been steamrolling her opponents,” said former World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki, who was commentating the match for ESPN. Wozniacki went on to wonder how the Pole will deal with the stress when she is finally tested in Melbourne. The one drawback of all her domination is that she hasn’t had to play many points under pressure. Will she be ready for it when the time comes?
For now, it’s not an issue. Not a bit...
Swiatek was in the groove from start to finish as she continued her impressive run with her fourth consecutive straight-sets drubbing against the World No.128 on Monday night.
Credit Lys for sticking with it - she was finally rewarded with a hold in the tenth game of the match, which was celebrated by the crowd in a nice moment.
The German played fiesty tennis the rest of the way, but could not stretch Swiatek past the 59-minute mark as the Pole took the final three games to book her 21st career Australian Open victory.
The World No.2 has made the most of a relatively friendly draw (in the lower half where it won't be possible to face Aryna Sabalenka or Coco Gauff until the final) in Melbourne and will be well rested when she takes on either Emma Navarro or Daria Kasatkina in the quarterfinals. Swiatek has recorded bagel sets in each of her last three matches and dropped just 11 games through four rounds.
That number of the fewest games dropped by Swiatek at any Grand Slam event.
Swiatek moved into her 10th career major quarterfinal and improved to 87-18 lifetime at the majors overall. The 23-year-old juggernaut is the youngest woman to achieve 10 Grand Slam singles QFs since Svetlana Kuznetsova at the 2009 Australian Open.