From 3-1 down, Swiatek won 11 straight games in her opening round against Harriet Dart. She started Thursday's match against Peterson much quicker. Swiatek won eight of the first 10 points as well as the first four games, and won five straight games en route to wrapping up the match in the second set.
She credited the quick start for the easy win.
"Just starting the match with confidence was pretty important for me," Swiatek said after the match. "I felt like I was dominating from the beginning, and after getting a couple of breaks, it was much easier to go forward. That was the key, basically."
Ready, willing and able: Swiatek needed just 67 minutes to score her second win against the Swedish No.1 at a major in the span of a year. Swiatek beat Peterson her in the same round of last year's French Open, losing only two games.
Swiatek said she and new coach Tomasz Witkorowski put together a comprehensive game plan that accounted for their first meeting on a new surface.
"I was ready for everything," Swiatek said. "But I knew she's going to play probably heavy forehand, a lot of topspin. I didn't want to let her play her game on the forehand, so basically I knew that if we were going to, for example, play backhand cross-court, I'm going to have more [of an] advantage.
"Going forehand on forehand, it may be pretty equal. I just knew this kind of stuff. But my coach wanted me to kind of have a game plan on every point, so we weren't talking really specifically about every aspect of the game. It was more like [an] overall idea."
All-Polish clash denied: Up next for Swiatek is a meeting with No.25 Daria Kasatkina, who eased to a 6-2, 6-3 win over Swiatek's compatriot Magda Linette. Should she want to reach the fourth round for the third year running, Swiatek will again have to adapt to a first hard-court meeting. She lost to Kasatkina in three sets on grass in Eastbourne last summer.
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