Iga Swiatek has stepped up her sport to revive order with a extra routine Australian Open second-round win at Melbourne Park.
The world No.1 superior to the final 32 on Wednesday with a convincing 6-2 6-3 victory over Colombian Camila Osorio.
Swiatek needed to scrap her method again from a service break down within the second set of her lower than convincing Open opener towards Jule Niemeier on Monday evening.
That was the Pole’s first outing since struggling a crushing loss to world No.3 Jessica Pegula on the season-opening United Cup earlier than withdrawing from the Adelaide International 2 with a shoulder subject.
The reigning French and US Open champion was nonetheless under her good finest for intervals towards Osorio, dropping serve thrice, however at the very least appears to be slowly warming to the duty because the Melbourne Park title favorite.
Swiatek raced to an early 4-0 lead and broke the South American six occasions in taking the match in a single hour, 24 minutes below a closed roof on Rod Laver Arena.
“It was much tougher than this score says. It was really intense physically and Camilla was really running to every ball. She didn’t give up,” Swiatek stated.
“She didn’t give me many points for free. So I needed to really work for each of them and it was tough, but I’m happy that I was proactive and trying to just play a little bit to put pressure (on her).
“But I’m fairly completely satisfied that I gained and I can play subsequent spherical.”
The straight-sets victory set up a third-round meeting on Friday with either Canada’s unseeded former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu or Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa.
Third-seeded Pegula is next up on RLA against Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
Other leading seeds scheduled for action on day three include Maria Sakkari, Coco Gauff, Madison Keys and 2022 runner-up Danielle Collins.
But with extra rain in Melbourne once more delaying play on the skin courts, some huge weapons must wait earlier than beginning their second-round matches.
