Iga Swiatek

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.

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.

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.

Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - June 4, 2022 Poland's Iga Swiatek in action during the women's singles final match against Cori Gauff ...

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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.

Swiatek surpassed Serena Williams' mark of 34 consecutive victories this century and matched that of her sister Venus Williams.

Now that I made it, it feels like a relief a little bit.” I hope he’s going to come back. “I definitely feel like this helped my confidence a lot. “I hope he liked it. But, yeah, I mean, wow! “I’m happy that he’s here, honestly.

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.

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.

Poland's Iga Swiatek swept Coco Gauff to win her second French Open title and extend her win streak to 35 matches, the longest in women's tennis since 2000.

“Hopefully, this is the first final of many.” “You didn’t wake up to be ordinary #1GA,” the blue T-shirts worn by those in Swiatek’s player box read. I know that I’ll get this opportunity again.” She followed that by making the 2021 French Open quarterfinals. Swiatek, 21, extended the most dominant reign in women’s tennis since Serena Williams‘ heyday. She then took the first two games of the second set before Swiatek seized control for good.

Iga Swiatek was crowned the winner of the French Open yesterday after seeing off American teenager Coco Gauff in the final of the tournament and increased ...

“Well I’m happy that he’s here, honestly. “But I was looking at many different things, at how Iga and her opponent Coco were moving on their feet, making those little steps, at more technical aspects. “When Iga wins, it’s something fantastic, a perfect combination, the emotions are there.