Spain's Garbine Muguruza is enjoying a return to form after a poor 2019. MELBOURNE: Elina Svitolina became the sixth top 10 women's seed to exit in the Australian Open third round after she was well beaten by unseeded Garbine Muguruza on Saturday .
But the 2016 Roland Garros and 2017 Wimbledon champion spent the off-season climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to help clear her mind of tennis -- and it appears to have done the trick. She saved two break points while serving for the match, then sealed an emphatic victory with a powerful forehand winner."I was very concentrated and focused on what I wanted to do, it all went fast my way," the Spaniard said of the rapid first set.Muguruza had been suffering a viral illness when she began her Melbourne campaign.
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