Even in matches with such emphatic scorelines, the final result is not always reflective of how competitive some can be. Sometimes the games are tight but the superior player wins the points that matter.
This was not one of those matches.
Across only 40 minutes, Swiatek destroyed the 41st-best female tennis player in the world. It was the shortest completed match of Swiatek's career and Potapova won only 10 points. The Russian did not contest a deuce game and the closest she came to winning a game was at 30-30 in the second game. It was about as dominant a win as can be seen at grand-slam level.
"Comfortable," Swiatek said, describing what it feels like to be in the zone. "You just go with it because there's no point of changing anything. You just continue what you've been doing and what has been working. But I was always focusing on the next point. I didn't really look at what happened before. So that was probably also why I could be efficient."
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