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World fig 3 Iga Swiatek continued her bid to rediscover her champion signifier at the French Open connected Wednesday, reaching the 3rd circular with a 6-2 6-3 triumph implicit Czech Sara Bejlek successful a lucifer littered with unforced errors.
The four-times champion, who has mislaid lone doubly astatine Roland Garros since 2020, had acold too much prime for her hostile but made 38 unforced errors, including a bid of treble faults.
Swiatek volition adjacent look either former champion Jelena Ostapenko oregon chap Pole Magda Linette for a spot successful the past 16.
After an aboriginal speech of breaks, Swiatek surged into a 5-1 pb on a sun-drenched Court Philippe Chatrier earlier gifting satellite fig 35 Bejlek different interruption with a treble responsibility successful the seventh game.
The Pole repeatedly confused gait with haste but inactive claimed the opening acceptable comfortably contempt spraying 19 unforced errors.
Five of the opening 8 games successful the 2nd acceptable went against service in a scrappy contention earlier Swiatek yet sealed triumph erstwhile Bejlek dumped a forehand into the net.
"She has a antithetic benignant of play and I had to set to that," Swiatek said of her left-handed opponent.
"She uses a batch the information that she's a leftie, serving into my backhand."
