Teenager Swiatek bundles top seed Halep out of French Open


  • Tennis
  • Sunday, 04 Oct 2020

Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - October 4, 2020. Poland's Iga Swiatek celebrates winning her fourth round match against Romania's Simona Halep REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS (Reuters) - Polish teenager Iga Swiatek dumped top seed Simona Halep out of the French Open on Sunday with a crushing 6-1 6-2 victory to make her maiden Grand Slam quarter-final.

Halep came into the fourth round clash on a 17-match unbeaten streak having defeated the 19-year-old Swiatek, ranked 54th in the world, 6-1 6-0 in 45 minutes at the same stage last year in the claycourt Grand Slam at Roland Garros.

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