With no room for surprise, the world number 1, the Polish Iga Swiatek won with complete authority 6-2, 6-1 in the final of Roland Garros Italian style Jasmine Paolinififteenth in the world, thus winning this Saturday her fourth title on the legendary clay of Paris.
After 2020, 2022 and 2023, the Suzanne Lenglen Cup ended up again in the hands of the 23-year-old player, who continues to build brick by brick her legend in the tenniswhere she now accumulates five Grand Slam titles, since she was also champion at the US Open in 2022.
But it is at Roland Garros, where she made herself known to the world by winning the 2020 edition by surprise, where she seems destined to mark an era.
With his four titles, only his admired Rafael Nadal, with a record of 14, Chris Evert (7), Steffi Graf (6) and Bjorn Börg ( 6).
The current queen of clay was born in Warsaw. That is what Swiatek made clear this season, who managed to chain the titles in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros, the three main events on that surface, something that no player has achieved since Serena Williams in 2013.
Her coronation has been the chronicle of a title as comfortable as it was predictable, against a Paolini who has been the great revelation of the tournament, but who had no choice in the match.
The petite Italian player (1.62 meters), who is experiencing the best season of her career, had never made it past the second round at Roland Garros until this edition. That’s why the final was a dream for her, and she entered the duel without complexes, even going ahead at the beginning of the match with a break against the Pole to lead 2-1.
A simple mirage. Swiatek was not willing to suffer and she won ten games in a row, including five breaks of serve, to win that set 6-2 and take a 5-0 lead in the second.
Paolini then achieved the game of honor, but the Pole then sentenced with her serve, with a 6-1 to conclude the match in just one hour and eight minutes.
Swiatek only suffered in one match at this Roland Garros, in which he was on the brink of the abyss. It was in the second round, against the former Japanese world number 1 Naomi Osaka, against whom he had to raise a match point against. The rest of his matches have ended with large and uneventful victories.
The Tuscan player had no chance of giving Italy its second title at the Roland Garros women’s tournament, after Francesca Schiavone’s surprise success in 2010.
She remains proud of her great adventure in the tournament and hopes of finishing with a trophy, since on Sunday she will play another final, the women’s doubles. Paired with her compatriot Sara Errani, she will then face the duo formed by the American Coco Gauff and the Czech Katerina Siniakova.
For Swiatek now comes a time of celebration and rest before facing her next great challenge, Wimbledon, where she could never be champion.
Source: Ambito
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