Unstoppable world number one Iga Swiatek racked up her 30th successive victory at the French Open on Thursday as Karolina Pliskova became the sixth top 10 women’s seed to exit Roland Garros when she was knocked out by world number 227 Leolia Jeanjean. Swiatek swept past Alison Riske of the United States 6-0, 6-2 to reach the third round. The 2020 champion in Paris is on the best streak since Serena Williams’s 34-match winning run in 2013 and goes on to face Danka Kovinic of Montenegro for a place in the last 16. Swiatek raced through the first set against 43rd-ranked Riske in just 21 minutes and was 3-0 up in the second before the American avoided a ‘double bagel’. The Pole still managed to take her record of 6-0 sets in 2022 to a season-leading 15. “I’m pretty happy to play some solid tennis,” said Swiatek. Eighth-seeded Pliskova, last year’s Wimbledon runner-up and a semi-finalist in Paris in 2017, lost 6-2, 6-2 to 26-year-old Jeanjean who cut her teeth as a leading college player in the United States. Former number one Pliskova joins fellow top 10 seeds, defending champion Barbora Krejcikova, Maria Sakkari, Ons Jabeur, Anett Kontaveit and former… Read full this story
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