French Open: Kostyuk stuns Swiatek as Roland-Garros shocks continue
Coco Gauff was the big-name exit at Roland-Garros on Saturday, and four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek has now crashed out too.
Iga Swiatek was dumped out of Roland-Garros by Marta Kostyuk as the shock results continue to pile up at the French Open.
Reigning women's singles champion Coco Gauff was knocked out on Saturday, in the wake of men's favourites Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner suffering early exits.
And four-time Roland-Garros champion Swiatek has now joined the list of big-name exits after a comprehensive 7-5 6-1 defeat.
World number 15 Kostyuk showed no mercy as she made it 16 straight wins on clay to reach just her second grand slam quarter-final.
The duo exchanged two breaks each during a frantic middle period of the opening set, but it was Kostyuk who recovered her composure to grab her third, decisive break and nose herself into the lead.
Swiatek responded by instantly getting the better of Kostyuk's serve at the start of the second set, but the Pole then lost all her momentum.
She lost each of her next three service games, while squandering three break points of her own, to fall 5-1 behind, and Kostyuk duly served out a magnificent win at the first time of asking.
Kostyuk will be joined in the last eight by Sorana Cirstea, who downed Wang Xiyu in straight sets.
Data Debrief: The queen of clay
Kostyuk is just the second player since the WTA Rankings were published in 1975 to win her first 16 clay court matches of a season while being ranked outside the top 10. The only other woman to do so was Justine Henin in 2005.
She is just the fifth woman in the 21st century to win her first 16 matches on clay in a season, joining Venus Williams (2004), Serena Williams (2012, 2023), Henin (2005) and Swiatek (2022).
The 23-year-old is the third player from Ukraine to reach the singles quarter-finals at Roland-Garros in the Open Era, after Andrei Medvedev and Elina Svitolina.












