Iga Swiatek

The 21-year-old extended her 35-match unbeaten streak and captured her second Grand Slam trophy in Paris in commanding fashion.

Today, though, she couldn’t overcome her nerves and couldn’t overcome the opponent. She was the older player and the favorite. For six rounds, the 18-year-old American was a real star of the tournament, as she won a half dozen matches without dropping a set and revealed herself to be both a complete player and a complete person. She was the one with the win streak. She was the higher seed. This marked the 35th straight win, dating back to February, and the sixth consecutive title for Świątek, yet another indication that she is simply at another plane from the rest of the field.

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.

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.

La numéro un mondiale domine Cori Gauff 6-1, 6-3 en finale.

Si bien qu'elle a conclu la première manche en reprenant pour la troisième fois la mise en jeu de son adversaire en 32 minutes. Mais Swiatek a remporté les cinq jeux suivants puis a servi pour le match à 5-3. «En 2020, une fois la balle de match gagnée, j'ai ressenti de la confusion parce que je n'avais jamais vraiment cru à 100% pouvoir remporter un tournoi du Grand Chelem. Cette fois, c'est le résultat d'un gros travail.

L'Américaine Coco Gauff, 18 ans seulement, n'a pas pu exister ce samedi en finale face à la numéro 1 mondiale de 21 ans, qui n'a jamais tremblé.

Iga Swiatek peut bien s’agenouiller sur la terre ocre du court Philippe-Chatrier en criant sa rage de vaincre face à son clan. Avec son entraîneur, Thomas Viktorovsky, qui en décembre a pris la place de Piotr Sierzputowski, le coach qui l’a amenée au haut niveau, et sa psychologue Daria Abramowicz, Iga Swiatek travaille en effet énormément sur son «approche mentale» des compétitions afin de gérer la pression pour rester au plus haut niveau pendant de longues années. A tout juste 21 ans (elle les a fêtés le 31 mai), la Polonaise, grande fan de Rafael Nadal, compte bien, comme son idole, marquer de son empreinte les plus grands courts du monde entier. A l’image de son attitude sur cette finale facilement remportée samedi (6-1, 6-3 en 1 h 08) contre Coco Gauff, 18 ans seulement, où seule la détermination semblait transpirer de son corps.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek beat 18-year-old American Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the French Open women's final Saturday in Paris to collect her second title at ...

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. 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. He won the 2017 U.S. Open title with Horia Tecau. 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. Much like a chess player, which she is.

La Polonaise a remporté les Internationaux de France pour la deuxième fois, samedi. Elle n'a fait qu'une bouchée de l'Américaine Cori Gauff en deux manches ...

Même Coco Gauff, qui avait sur papier encore tout à jouer, affichait une mine quelque peu déconfite. Parce que même ses plus beaux coups n’étaient pas de taille devant le brio asphyxiant de la numéro un mondiale. Elle plaçait des balles en fond de terrain, hors de portée pour Gauff, avec une précision et un rythme époustouflants. Et, on se l’imagine, épuisants pour l’Américaine. À partir de ce moment, l’issue du match n’a plus fait de doute. « Quand j’ai gagné le tournoi, il y a deux ans, c’était incroyable, s’est rappelé la championne sur le court après le match, le trophée en main. Elle n’a fait qu’une bouchée de l’Américaine Cori Gauff en deux manches de 6-1 et 6-3. « Ce que tu as fait lors des derniers mois a été exceptionnel, a souligné Coco Gauff, s’adressant à sa rivale les yeux tristes, mais le sourire aux lèvres. Tu le mérites totalement.

Iga Swiatek est si efficace avec une raquette qu'elle ne semble jamais ennuyée sur un court, où personne ne l'a battue depuis des mois.

En plus de son jeu exceptionnel, Swiatek démontre un calme et une présence remarquables sur le court. Son travail consiste surtout à lui faire garder sa concentration sur ses objectifs ultimes, comme de remporter des tournois majeurs. « La séquence des derniers mois a été incroyable et tu le mérites pleinement, a dit la jeune Américaine à la championne. « Il y a deux ans, de remporter ce titre a été fabuleux. L'Américaine n'avait pas perdu une manche jusque-là dans le tournoi et avait inscrit en moyenne six bris par rencontre. Iga Swiatek ne fait qu'une bouchée de Coco Gauff et remporte les Internationaux de FranceRoland-Garros samedi, 4 juin 2022.

La numéro 1 mondiale s'est adjugé samedi son deuxième trophée au tournoi du Grand Chelem parisien. Favorite du tournoi, la Polonaise a survolé la quinzaine ...

La joueuse l’a reconnu, elle se sent « prête à ce qui va arriver ensuite ». Les sollicitations, la pression, elle s’y est préparée et habite désormais son costume de numéro 1 mondiale. Si l’orage a grondé, au loin, juste avant la fin de la partie, le tonnerre est sorti de la raquette d’Iga Swiatek. « [Iga], c’est de la dynamite sur le terrain. L’an passé, Iga Swiatek a croisé Rafael Nadal au petit déjeuner à l’hôtel, au lendemain de la défaite du Majorquin en demi-finales contre Novak Djokovic. « Je lui ai dit que j’avais pleuré toute la soirée, a relaté la joueuse. « J’essaie de les aborder comme n’importe quel match, a exposé la joueuse, reconnaissant que ce n’est pas simple. Mais depuis que la vainqueure du dernier Open d’Australie a choisi d’abdiquer et de remiser ses raquettes au printemps (à 25 ans), Swiatek a repris la couronne de numéro 1 mondiale. « Ce dont je suis la plus fière, c’est d’avoir fait quelque chose de mieux que Serena [Williams] », a souri la joueuse. Iga Swiatek a parfois évoqué un pendant au féminin de Rafael Nadal – qu’elle continue d’aduler. Ses rudes coups droits liftés ont laissé Cori Gauff impuissante ; la Polonaise s’est muée en rouleau compresseur, asphyxiant son adversaire. Depuis le 22 février, la native de Varsovie n’a pas perdu le moindre match. C’était difficile, la pression était énorme », a reconnu la Polonaise après avoir soulevé la coupe Suzanne-Lenglen. Débarquée Porte d’Auteuil avec la pancarte de favorite, Iga Swiatek en a assumé le poids. D’ordinaire, lorsqu’un monarque est sacré, des coups de canon viennent ponctuer la célébration. A Paris, quelques coups de tonnerre en ont fait office pour le couronnement d’Iga Swiatek, samedi 4 juin. Alors qu’outre-Manche une tête couronnée célèbre ce week-end son jubilé de platine, la jeune Polonaise s’est érigée en reine de sa discipline.

La numéro un mondiale domine Cori Gauff 6-1, 6-3 en finale.

Mais Swiatek a remporté les cinq jeux suivants puis a servi pour le match à 5-3. Si bien qu'elle a conclu la première manche en reprenant pour la troisième fois la mise en jeu de son adversaire en 32 minutes. «En 2020, une fois la balle de match gagnée, j'ai ressenti de la confusion parce que je n'avais jamais vraiment cru à 100% pouvoir remporter un tournoi du Grand Chelem. Cette fois, c'est le résultat d'un gros travail.

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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.

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 ...

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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.

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For now, Swiatek said, she felt she needed to keep all of her attention on tennis. Gauff began the second set by breaking Swiatek for the only time, and then holding to go up 2-0. “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.

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.

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 shif...

“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.

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.

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...