Iga Swiatek enters quarters; Madison Keys ousts Rybakina at Australian Open

Melbourne: No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland swept into the Australian Open quarterfinals for the second time with a win over lucky loser Eva Lys of Germany on Monday.

The Pole registered a 6-0, 6-1 win over the German in 59 minutes at Rod Laver Arena. Swiatek has dropped just 11 games in four matches so far in the tournament. This was her fourth successive straight-sets win for Swaitek in this tournament.

Since her WTA Tour debut, Swiatek has won 72 sets 6-0 – a whopping 40 more than next-best Elise Mertens (32) in that timeframe. After win over Lys, her tally of bagels at the Australian Open moved to five.

The five-time major champion remains in contention to reclaim the World No.1 ranking from Aryna Sabalenka next Monday. Sabalenka will need to defeat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Tuesday’s quarterfinal in order to stay ahead of Swiatek.

If Swiatek also wins her quarterfinal, Sabalenka will need to reach the final. If the pair meet in the final, the winner will walk away with the World No.1 ranking.

No. 19 seed American Madison Keys moved into the quarterfinals for the fourth time in her career by ousting No. 6 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.

Keys shook off a second-set lull to topple 2023 Australian Open finalist Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in 1 hour and 49 minutes. The American is now a win away from reaching her third semifinal at Melbourne Park, having made the final four here in 2015 and 2022.

Keys, who won the WTA 500 title in Adelaide a week ago, is now on a nine-match winning streak, and she is the tour leader in match wins so far this year with an overall win-loss record of 10-1 in 2025, according to WTA stats.

The 29-year-old American will now take on No. 28 seed Elina Svitolina, who came back from a double-break down in the first set to roll past Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 6-1 in Rod Laver Arena earlier.

The 2017 US Open finalist Keys has a narrow 3-2 head-to-head lead over Svitolina. Their last meeting came almost exactly three years ago, also in Australia — Keys beat then-No. 2 seed Svitolina in the first round of the WTA 250 event at Adelaide in 2022 and went all the way to the title.

Svitolina reached back-to-back Australian Open quarterfinals in 2018 and 2019. Last year, Svitolina came into the Australian Open in strong form but was forced to retire from her fourth-round match against Linda Noskova after just three games due to a back injury.

However, 8th seed Emma Navarro beat Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 in the other fourthround match. Agencies

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