Iga Swiatek wins the French Open for the second time. Photo: Roland-Garros
Iga Swiatek wins second French Open title and extends winning streak to 35 matches
World Number One Iga Swiatek defeated 18th seed Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3 to win the Roland Garros women’s singles title.
Iga Swiatek wins the French Open for the second time. Photo: Roland-Garros
Poland’s Iga Swiatek capped off her incredible clay-court season with a second Grand Slam title as she defeated 18th seed Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3 to win the Roland Garros women’s singles title on Saturday.
Swiatek shocked the field two years ago when she lifted her first Roland Garros trophy as an unseeded teenager.
However, this time around Swiatek swept to her second French Open title off the back of a winning streak that now stretches out to a staggering 35th consecutive match, tying the mark set by Venus Williams back in 2000 for the longest WTA Tour winning streak this century.
Incredible Iga Swiatek
Swiatek needed just one hour and eight minutes to overcome first-time Grand Slam singles finalist Gauff and match Williams’ streak.
Swiatek is the tenth woman to win multiple Roland Garros singles titles in the Open Era.
Swiatek turned 21 on Tuesday making her the fourth-youngest player to triumph more than once in Paris. Only Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Chris Evert were younger when they achieved the feat.
Swiatek is also now the youngest woman to win multiple Grand Slam titles since Maria Sharapova claimed her second Major title aged 19 at the 2006 US Open.
Swiatek’s latest triumph is her sixth title of the year, all coming in a row during her winning streak (following Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome). She is the first player to win six titles in a row since Justine Henin in 2007 and 2008.
If Swiatek can win her next match which should be at the Berlin Open, she will hold the best winning streak of the century.
A second round victory in Berlin will also see Swiatek tie Monica Seles’ 36-match winning run from 1990. While a third round triump after that would see her tie Martina Hingis’s 37-match winning streak from 1997.
