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Tennis: Swiatek, Osaka and Prizmic through to Italian Open fourth round

# Tennis: World number three, Poland’s Iga Swiatek, has reached the fourth round of the Italian Open. The two-time winner thrashed Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-1, 6-0. She will face Japan’s Naomi Osaka next, who defeated Russia’s Diana Shnaider, 6-1, 6-2. There were also wins for Kazakhstani Elena Rybakina and American Jessica Pegula. In the men’s draw, Croatian Dino Prizmic followed up his victory against Novak Djokovic by beating France’s Ugo Humbert 6-1, 7-5 to reach the last 16. Spaniard, Rafael Jodar, held off Italian wild card Matteo Arnaldi, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.