Daria Kasatkina dished out a double bagel 6-0 6-0 to Polina Kudermetova in simply 42 minutes on the WTA 1000 in Doha – one of many quickest WTA matches ever!
One month after dropping to the identical opponent in Brisbane, Kasatkina acquired her revenge with a devasting show to file the second 6-0 6-0 win of her profession after beating Brit Lily Miyazaki by the identical scoreline at Wimbledon final summer season.
Kasatkina grew to become the primary participant to win a foremost draw match on the Qatar Open 6-0 6-0 since Donna Vekic in 2016.
“I keep in mind precisely what occurred a month in the past,” mentioned Kasatkina, who gained the opening set in 19 minutes.
“I used to be making an attempt to be actually targeted as a result of as quickly as you lose your focus the match can change fully within the blink of an eye fixed. Plus the situations are actually difficult right here, it is actually windy, so it is robust however that is what now we have to take care of.”
Second seed Iga Swiatek cruised into the final 16 with a 6-3 6-2 victory in opposition to Maria Sakkari.
“From what I keep in mind it is not like I have been enjoying flawlessly, so it is not like these tournaments have been good, however sooner or later at all times I discovered some options,” mentioned the Pole. “I feel the situations listed below are fairly difficult, and I used to be affected person sufficient to only hold specializing in my sport.
“Yearly it is totally different, yearly there’s a totally different story, so it is onerous to match and onerous to seek out one factor that labored precisely.”
Swiatek is seeking to turn out to be solely the second girl this century to win the identical match 4 consecutive instances, after Caroline Wozniacki in New Haven, from 2008-2011.
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