Iga Swiatek

Iga Swiatek cruised to her second French Open title by dominating teenager Coco Gauff in the final on Saturday, as the world number one claimed her 35th ...

Speaking after her win, Swiatek said, "I wanted to say something to Ukraine, to stay strong, because the war is still there.” Gauff finally got on the board with a scrappy hold to the delight of the crowd, but she had dropped a set for the first time in the tournament just minutes later. Gauff looked nervous in the opening exchanges and a flurry of unforced errors handed Swiatek a break in the very first game.

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Just with everything that was going on, I'm also more aware of how it is to win a Grand Slam and what it takes and how every puzzle has to come together and basically every aspect of the game has to work. This time I felt like I really did the work.” “This time it was pure work and pure...

Whether it's the streak, her second Grand Slam title or the top ranking, the only true measure of Iga Swiatek's accomplishments is history itself.

“I think it’s going to be a little bit different. Swiatek’s chief strategy was targeting Gauff’s forehand – of the teenager’s 23 unforced errors, 16 came on that wing. “So when I was playing quarterfinal, I felt like even if something is going to go bad, I still know how to come back. I mean, there was lot of confusion in me, for sure.” So I tried to take just positives from it.” Back in March, Iga Swiatek was working on what in retrospect feels like a quaint little winning streak of 11 matches.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has beaten 18-year-old American Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the French Open final to collect her second title at Roland Garros and stretch ...

For now, Swiatek said, she felt she needed to keep all of her attention on tennis. “She does a good job of taking the pressure moments and really rising to the occasion. And today she rose to the occasion,” said the 18th-seeded Gauff, who was appearing in her first Grand Slam final and hadn’t dropped a set in the tournament. The hardest thing is like not letting yourself think about that and overanalyze and not letting yourself think about all the numbers and the odds.” Thanks to a 6-1, 6-3 victory over 18-year-old American Coco Gauff in Saturday’s final, the top-ranked Swiatek leaves Roland Garros with her second championship — and a run of 35 matches without a loss. It’s not easy to cope with all that different atmosphere and the pressure,” Swiatek, who is 21, said after adding this trophy to the one she won in Paris in 2020 while ranked outside the top 50.

Saturday's game, between Świątek and Coco Gauff, provided a chance to glimpse potential greats at the beginning of their careers.

Gauff secured one last hold before Świątek held to win—and quickly set off to clamber up to her player’s box to hug her dad, her coach, her sports psychologist, and the rest of her team. She can hit it in any direction with deft disguise, and she can hit it with depth, wherever she happens to be on the court. The match left Gauff in tears and Świątek with a thirty-five-match winning streak, tied (with Venus Williams) for the longest on the women’s tour this century, and tied with Sharapova for the youngest in this century to win two majors. But to glimpse potential greats at the beginning of their careers is among the most satisfying things on offer from sports. To watch Świątek just now is to see fresh tennis greatness, and she played the finest tennis of her two weeks in Paris during Saturday’s final: mixing up her serves; returning aggressively; creating, with tactical savvy, yards of open court to strike winners into; finding the lines on the big points, again and again. Gauff broke Świątek’s serve to begin the second set, then held to go up 2–love. Świątek calmly won the next five games. In the sixth game of the first set, with Gauff having held for the first time in the previous game, Świątek closed out a hold of her own with two searing forehands, the first struck crosscourt, the second inside out to Gauff’s backhand corner. But Gauff has real problems with getting her spacing and balance right on the forehand side—she’s often crowding the ball, or stretching for it, when she is hitting on the run, or not stepping into it fully even when she seems to have time to set herself and smack away. Junior finals at the French Open are not held on the big show court, Philippe-Chatrier, and they are scheduled on days when the main-draw finals are being played and the focus of fans is there. They’d reached the women’s final on different trajectories. Junior finals get the attention of players’ parents, of coaches, of sponsors and potential sponsors. Gauff won the French Open girls’ final four years ago by defeating her friend and fellow-American, Caty McNally. McNally had reached the final by outlasting, in a tight, three-set semifinal, a sixteen-year-old Polish girl named Iga Świątek. COVID has done strange things to our sense of time passing; somehow, depending on our mood and the memory we’re seeking to summon, 2018 can seem like long ago or yesterday—we’ll need a Proust to help us navigate our recollections of the pandemic epoch.

Two-time women's Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek says that lessons drawn from her idol Rafael Nadal have helped keep her dizzying success in perspective.

It's normal’. Not everybody can do that and just treat those big moments as another match.” “I feel like all these great champions, they kind of accept that they may lose. “I think the best thing I can learn from him is how he's cool about what's going on around him,” Swiatek said.

Polish world No 1 blows away Coco Gauff in Roland Garros decider to make it 34 wins in a row.

For now, Swiatek said, she felt she needed to keep all of her attention on tennis. “She does a good job of taking the pressure moments and really rising to the occasion. And today she rose to the occasion,” said the 18th-seeded Gauff, who was appearing in her first Grand Slam final and hadn't dropped a set in the tournament. Gauff began the second set by breaking Swiatek for the only time, and then holding to go up 2-0. Most of all, she allowed her play to rule the day. “It is, like, basically the hardest part of the job, I would say, because you can see at Grand Slams that there are a lot of surprises.

Iga Swiatek arrived at the French Open as heavily favoured to win a women's grand slam title as practically any player since the final peak years of Serena ...

With Swiatek continually targeting her itchy forehand, it took Gauff 22 minutes to clinch her first game in a grand slam final and she relaxed. But the run for Gauff was short-lived, with her attempts to match Swiatek’s offence yielding too many errors. From the moment she entered the court they desperately cheered Gauff. After an unforced error in the opening point, a spectator shouted out: “Coco, it’s not finished!” in French to general laughter. Along with her winning streak, which equals Venus Williams’s 21st-century record, Swiatek is now 21-2 (91%) at the French Open, the third best record in the history of the women’s tournament, having won the event twice in her first four years as a senior. Iga Swiatek arrived at the French Open as heavily favoured to win a women’s grand slam title as practically any player since the final peak years of Serena Williams, and she certainly knew it. The victory is the crown on top of her astounding run, which stands at 35 wins in a row and counting.

Tennis commentators were left aghast when Iga Swiatek was asked about using make-up after winning her second French Open title on Sunday.

And today she rose to the occasion," said the 18th-seeded Gauff, who was appearing in her first Grand Slam final and hadn't dropped a set in the tournament. For now, Swiatek said, she felt she needed to keep all of her attention on tennis. "She does a good job of taking the pressure moments and really rising to the occasion. Gauff began the second set by breaking Swiatek for the only time, and then holding to go up 2-0. Also key to Swiatek's presence, and swiftly burgeoning aura, is her calmness on court. It's not easy to cope with all that different atmosphere and the pressure," Swiatek, who is 21, said after adding this trophy to the one she won in Paris in 2020 while ranked outside the top 50. Thanks to a 6-1, 6-3 victory over 18-year-old American Coco Gauff in Saturday's final, the top-ranked Swiatek leaves Roland Garros with her second championship — and a run of 35 matches without a loss. By the end, Gauff had more unforced errors, 23-16, and also fewer winners: 14 for her, 18 for Swiatek. The hardest thing is like not letting yourself think about that and overanalyze and not letting yourself think about all the numbers and the odds." She has won 56 of her past 58 sets. "Outside of the court, when you go to a party, do you use make-up?" "Do you like to go elegant and smart and so on?

It was the second Grand Slam title for the 21-year-old Swiatek, who also triumphed at Roland Garros in 2020. The victory on Court Philippe Chatrier against the ...

Her 2020 victory in Paris made her the first player from Poland to win a Grand Slam singles title. The victory on Court Philippe Chatrier against the 18-year-old Gauff — who was playing her first Grand Slam final — extended Swiatek's winning run to 35 matches. It was the second Grand Slam title for the 21-year-old Swiatek, who also triumphed at Roland Garros in 2020.

Coco Gauff, the 18-year-old American phenom, faces top-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland in the French Open women's singles final, live on NBC.

The 23rd seed reached the final without dropping a set in six matches and not facing any top-30 players. “It’s been going on well,” Swiatek said. Swiatek, the 2020 French Open champion, rides a 34-match win streak, tying the longest in women’s tennis since Venus Williams won 35 in a row in 2000.

Swiatek, 21, won her second Grand Slam title Saturday in Paris. The world's No. 1 player has won 35 straight matches.

Nadal walked beside him as Zverev reached up to shake the chair umpire’s hand, and his retirement from the match was announced. Nadal had claimed the 98-minute opening set by fending off four set points in a 10-8 tiebreaker. That’s going to be a big mental hurdle for Gauff to overcome as much as a physical one. Zverev, the 2020 U.S. Open runner-up, was seeking his second career appearance in a Grand Slam final. It was her first break point of the match, and she followed it up with a couple aces in the second game. Gauff didn’t win a single point in the fifth. The streak ties Venus Williams’s record and the title puts a second Grand Slam trophy on her shelf. That’s the last time 21-year-old Iga Swiatek lost a tennis match and she now has a second title at Roland Garros to go along with her incredible 35-match win streak. Gauff bolted to a better start to open the second set, capitalizing on a wild Swiatek forehand to break serve in the first game. It was surely a psychological boost but did little to rattle Swiatek, who closed the first set in 32 minutes. She had yet to drop a set in the tournament and took Court Philippe-Chatrier as the French Open’s 2018 girls’ junior champion. With it, Swiatek, who turned 21 last Tuesday, claimed her second Grand Slam title, adding to the 2020 French Open championship that she claimed as a relatively unknown 19-year-old.

Swiatek, who took over as world number one when Australian Ash Barty announced her shock retirement in March, has now won 35 consecutive matches.

It was pretty tough, the pressure was big,” said Swiatek after sobbing when the Polish anthem was being played. But I mean, Wow! He has been a top athlete in our country for so many years that it still feels like it is hard to believe that he came to watch me. “I am happy that he is here, honestly.

PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek's first Grand Slam title came at the French Open in October 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic forced the tournament to shift from ...

“Yeah, there are many things,” she continued. We want to keep an eye on (her) strengths, and we will try to develop other tools.” I actually like the part that I have no expectations there. I don’t know about that yet,” she said. And as Swiatek thinks back now to that moment in time, she describes the whole thing this way: “Lucky.” “She really didn’t give me anything,” Gauff said. Swiatek won the junior title there in 2018. This is the best way, just to take everything step by step, one at a time. So I try to not panic and just be less stressed than they are.” But this is just the best option. “This time it was pure work.” Just the next match is important for us,” Wiktorowski said.

World number one Swiatek has won a record-equalling 35 consecutive matches, a run culminating in her 6-1 6-3 Roland Garros final win over Coco Gauff.

But I want to stay in Warsaw for a few days. “I don’t know about that yet. I haven’t talked to my coach.