Iga Swiatek

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.

The world No.1 seems unstoppable as she surpasses Serena Williams' career-best unbeaten run.

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.

On Saturday, Iga Swiatek beat Coco Gauff for her second French Open title. She has now won 35 matches in a row. What makes her so good?

"I kind of felt like the sky's the limit for me, so I feel more free right now," she said earlier this week. She reached the semifinals at the Australian Open and since then has been nothing short of perfect. But she knew exactly what she needed to do and was candid about her hopes for the future. "Hopefully we're going to see this final play out many, many times over the next 10 years, and hopefully this starts a little rivalry. "Also, I think the biggest change for me is going to be to be consistent. She was the fifth straight first-time major champion in the women's draw at Roland Garros, and she had seen other women have success but struggle to follow it up. She lost just eight games in total to Pegula and Daria Kasatkina, in the quarterfinals and semifinals. Swiatek had achieved modest success during her first year on tour in 2019, with a fourth-round appearance at Roland Garros and her first WTA final appearance, in Lugano. She was steadily ascending up the ranks. Much like this year, Swiatek stormed through the field -- allowing no opponent to win more than five games -- and took down top-seeded Simona Halep in just over an hour, 6-1, 6-2 in the fourth round. She faced Swiatek in the opening round and lasted just 54 minutes on court in a 6-2, 6-0 rout. Swiatek dropped just one set -- to 19-year-old Qinwen Zheng in the fourth round -- en route to the final. "She's kind of hit another level than all of us right now," said Jessica Pegula, who lost to Swiatek in the quarterfinals.

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.

Most of all, she allowed her play to rule the day. Thanks to a 6-1, 6-3 victory over 18-year-old American Coco Gauff in Saturday's final, the top-ranked Swiatek ...

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. 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.

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

So I try to not panic and just be less stressed than they are.” “Do you like to go elegant and smart and so on? “I don’t know about that yet. “I guess I’m kind of accepting that a little bit more and just, I try to lean on the strengths. But questions like this ruin it for everyone. “Outside of the court, when you go to a party, do you use make-up?” the reporter asked.

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

So I try to not panic and just be less stressed than they are.” “Do you like to go elegant and smart and so on? “I don’t know about that yet. “I guess I’m kind of accepting that a little bit more and just, I try to lean on the strengths. But questions like this ruin it for everyone. “Outside of the court, when you go to a party, do you use make-up?” the reporter asked.

Iga Swiatek was left baffled after her dominance of women's tennis was overlooked in her title-winning press conference.

but for me, it’s about influencing the leaders that are in office and leaders around the world maybe to hear that message.” It’s important that we mention these things. “But I still have hopes and try to support, so thank you guys,” said the 21-year-old amid roaring applause from the crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier. The Pole, who played the entire tournament with a blue-and-yellow ribbon pinned to her cap, said on Saturday: “I would like to say something to Ukraine. Stay strong, the war is still there. “Outside of the court, when you go to a party, do you use make-up?” the journalist asked. The 21-year-old calmly dispatched of the question with a simple, “OK, thankyou.”

World number one Iga Swiatek confirmed her dominance of women's tennis by sweeping aside American teenager Coco Gauff 6-1 6-3 to claim her second French ...

The new champion ran to her box after a brief celebration, while Gauff sat on her courtside chair and wept. But as a cool breeze lowered the temperature on court Philippe Chatrier, Gauff turned up the heat to go 2-0 up in the second set. A superb backhand passing shot winner got Gauff into the groove, but Swiatek kept the pressure on and stole her serve again as she dragged the American off the court and forced her to hit a forehand wide.

Swiatek beat Coco Gauff, the 18-year-old American prodigy.

But Gauff did not give her support group much to cheer for in the early going, losing her serve in a hurry in the opening game with a series of errors and one very edgy double fault. She and partner Jessica Pegula will play in the women’s doubles final on Sunday against Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia of France. That French Open was played in the autumn after being postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. “When I came to the team in December, I said, ‘OK lets’s start with the strengths, not the weak points,’” Wiktorowski said. But Swiatek, nearly three years Gauff’s elder, has stormed to the front of the women’s game since then with her aggressive style, powerful package of skills and detail-oriented approach to training. Gauff, in her first Grand Slam singles final at age 18, sat in her chair courtside with tears streaming down her face after the defeat.

Tennis's top-ranked Swiatek beat Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the final at Roland Garros. Swiatek's unbeaten run of 35 matches equals one by Venus Williams in 2000 as ...

Not in all cases, of course, but often, the spectators at Roland Garros tend to offer their support to underdogs and to whichever player is trailing in a particular match. Also key to Swiatek's presence, and swiftly burgeoning aura, is her calmness on court. Gauff began the second set by breaking Swiatek for the only time, and then holding to go up 2-0. Both of which applied to Gauff. So there was a surfeit of shouts of "Allez, Coco!" There were repeated cries of her chant-ready, two-syllable first name. Might this now be a much closer contest? Her last loss came in February to 2017 Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko.

In the year 2022 and in the wake of the Polish tennis star's French Open win, no one expected a journalist to ask her about her beauty regime after winning.

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.

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.