New York: Poland’s women’s world number one Iga Swiatek of the US Open Tennis Grand Slam winner. Iga won the title by defeating Ons Jabiur of Tunisia. Score: 6-2, 7-6 (7/5).
This is Iga’s second Grand Slam title of the season. The Polish player also won the French Open held in June. The star also won 37 consecutive matches. This is Iga’s third Grand Slam win, including two French Opens. First career US and the Open title. It is also Iga’s first title on hard court.
U.S. 21-year-old Iga also became the first Polish woman to win the Open title. She is also the first woman since Serena Williams to win the French Open and US Open titles in the same year. Serena’s achievement was in 2013. Sviatek entered the final by defeating sixth seed Aryana Sabalanka of Belarus in two sets to one.
The U.S. in the Modern Open Era Jabiur came to the title fight with the achievement of being the first African female player to reach the final of the Open. Defeated France’s Carolina Garcia in the semi-finals. This is Jabiur’s second consecutive final of the season.
Jabiur also returned as runner-up at Wimbledon. She lost to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan that day. Iga won the third Grand Slam title in his career. Iga will win the French Open in 2020 and 2022. That routine continued this time too, winning all 18 finals played in straight sets.
Iga dominated the first set. Jabiyur struggled to rise to excellence.
After seeing a double break, Iga won the set 6-2. The second set was more dramatic. Iga saw a break in the set, but once held back. After that, Ons, who gave the break two more times, took the break back both times. Once saved a championship point on his serve to extend the second set to a tiebreaker.
Iga slowly dominated the tiebreaker. Once once more, Iga Set won the championship point and won the title in his own name. The final once morest Jabiur was a roaring affair. Chair umpire Louis Azemar Ingsell asked the crowd to be quiet several times.
