Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz produced a “double bagel” 6-0, 6-0 mixed doubles win on Monday to send Poland into the quarter-finals of the United Cup, capping a 2-1 tie over Spain.
World No. 1 Swiatek and her ninth-ranked men’s partner were ruthless in their 53-minute demolition of Spaniards Sara Sorribes Tormo and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
The Poles will await an opponent as other groups play out their schedules at the 18-nation team event staged in Perth and Sydney.
Swiatek picked up the pace earlier as she hammered Sorribes Tormo 6-2, 6-1 after the favoured Hurkacz was ambushed 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 by Davidovich Fokina.
Swiatek called her mixed victory “lessons for the future and great practice, I hardly ever play mixed.
“You use different skills, it’s about feeling the geometry of the court.”
Hurkacz said he was in debt to his compatriot on the doubles court: “She carried me throughout the whole match; in every game she was making amazing shots.”
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