Iga Swiatek dominates Magda Linette to move into last eight of China Open in Beijing

Iga Swiatek powered her way into the quarter-finals of the China Open with a comfortable straight-sets win over Magda Linette.

Eyeing her first WTA 1000 title of the year, the French Open champion dispatched her fellow Pole 6-1 6-1 on her debut at the event.

The second seed set out her stall immediately with a love hold before converting her third break point to open up an early gap.

She soon found herself a double-break ahead in the first set as she threatened to rack up her 21st bagel of 2023.

Linette finally got on the board, however, with an impressive love hold, but Swiatek saw out the set on her serve.

The writing was on the wall following her third break at the start of the second, and Swiatek showed little mercy as she secured a second break to go 3-0 up – incidentally, winning more games than her opponent had picked up points at that stage of the set.

Even as Linette started to get points on the board and claimed her first game of the set for 4-1, Swiatek continued to dominate and a final decisive break secured victory in 66 minutes.

She now faces the winner of the match between ninth seed Caroline Garcia and Anhelina Kalinina.