By beating Cirstea, Swiatek has been through to the Madrid round-of-16 for the third time in her third appearance at Caja Magica. For a place in the Madrid quarterfinal, Swiatek will be playing against the winner of the match between Victoria Azarenka and Sara Sorribes Tormo.

Third-seeded Coco Gauff almost let the first set slip away to No. 31 Dayana Yastremska before getting back to form and shutting down the Ukrainian 6-4, 6-1 on Saturday to advance to the Round of 16 at the Mutua Madrid Open.

Iga Swiatek is through to her sixth round of 16 from seven main-draw appearances in WTA 1000 events on clay (85.7 per cent) - the highest percentage rate among players with at least five such appearan