Iga Swiatek storms into milestone 10th Grand Slam quarterfinal of career at Australian Open
At 23 years old, she’s the youngest woman to reach her 10th career Grand Slam quarterfinal in 16 years.
Iga Swiatek has continued her path of destruction through the draw at this year’s Australian Open, storming past Germany’s Eva Lys in the fourth round of the first major of the year, 6-0, 6-1.
And with that victory, she hits a new milestone: Swiatek is now through to the 10th Grand Slam quarterfinal of her career.
Having reached the quarterfinals of the US Open last year, this is also the first time in her career that she’s made the quarterfinals or better at back-to-back majors outside of Roland Garros.
IGA SWIATEK’S GRAND SLAM QUARTERFINALS (10):
Won 2020 Roland Garros
QFs at 2021 Roland Garros
SFs at 2022 Australian Open
Won 2022 Roland Garros
Won 2022 US Open
Won 2023 Roland Garros
QFs at 2023 Wimbledon
Won 2024 Roland Garros
QFs at 2024 US Open
QFs at 2025 Australian Open (so far)
Additionally, at 23 years old, Swiatek is the youngest woman to reach her 10th Grand Slam quarterfinal in 16 years, since Svetlana Kuznetsova reached her 10th at the 2009 Australian Open.
Kuznetsova was a slightly younger 23 than Swiatek at the time.
After a tricky 6-3, 6-4 first-round victory over world No. 1 doubles player Katerina Siniakova last Monday, Swiatek has been barreling through the draw, following that up with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Rebecca Sramkova in the second round and a 6-1, 6-0 win over former US Open champion Emma Raducanu in the third round.
And she was as dominant as ever in the fourth round on Monday night, winning the first nine games in a row for a 6-0, 3-0 lead before Lys, who got into the main draw here as a lucky loser, finally got on the board with a hold of serve to make it 6-0, 3-1.
Swiatek then won three more games in a row to close it out.
She finished the match with 28 winners in 59 minutes.
The world No. 2 has only lost four games across her last three matches, but things will likely get much tougher in the next round as she faces her first Top 10 foe of the tournament—awaiting her in the quarterfinals is the world No. 8, Emma Navarro, who outlasted another Top 10 player, No. 10 Daria Kasatkina, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5.
