Iga Swiatek received her fourth Roland Garros this Saturday, her third in a row, following sweeping Jasmine Paolini within the ultimate, 6-2 and 6-1, in 1 hour and eight minutes.
The world #1 turns into the third participant to win three crowns in Paris, following the American Monica Seles between 1990 and 1992 and the Belgian Justine Henin between 2005 and 2007.
At 23 years previous, the additionally winner of the 2022 US Open turns into the youngest participant to win 4 Roland Garros tournaments and the sixth youngest to win her fifth Grand Slam.
A visibly emotional Swiatek acquired the trophy from two legends, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
The tennis participant from Warsaw appears unstoppable on this court docket and on this version she has flown over the competitors following seeing the precipice up shut within the second spherical when the Japanese Naomi Osaka, former world #1, had a match level.
Since then, Swiatek has turn into a serial killer on the court docket and has solely missed 17 video games, together with three 6-0s.
Nothing appeared to cease the Pole, who noticed Belarusian Iryna Sabalenka, former quantity 2 within the rating, fall within the quarterfinals on the opposite facet of the draw, the one one able to compete along with her.
A fervent admirer of Rafa Nadal, Swiatek is dominating the clay court docket Grand Slam with an iron fist. She already has 21 wins in that event, the third finest streak in historical past, solely surpassed by the 29 wins of Chris Evert, the 25 of Monica Seles and the 24 of Justine Henin, however with yet one more victory than the German Steffi Graf.
The triumph in Paris is the crowning of an important season on clay, topped with triumphs in Madrid and Barcelona, one thing that no lady had achieved since Serena Williams in 2013.
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2024-06-13 13:49:01
