Swiatek demolishes Linette to reach China Open quarterfinals

World No 2 Iga Swiatek swatted aside compatriot Magda Linette to surge into the China Open quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-1 victory in Beijing on Wednesday.

Swiatek raced into a 5-0 lead in the first set and snuffed out any hope of an unlikely comeback when she forced her fellow Pole to fire a forehand long.

The four-time Grand Slam champion then presided over a second-set masterclass, blitzing an exhausted Linette with an unrelenting salvo of mighty groundstrokes to wrap up the match in just over an hour.

60th win of 2023 😤@iga_swiatek locks in her quarterfinal spot!#ChinaOpen pic.twitter.com/ofV4z66coc

— wta (@WTA) October 4, 2023

Swiatek faces Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina or the ninth seed Caroline Garcia of France next.

World No 4 Jessica Pegula crashed out with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat to Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko.

Ostapenko faces Liudmila Samsonova in the last eight after the Russian defeated Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 7-5 in a match that took nearly three hours.