The Polish Iga Swiatek he won his fourth this Saturday Roland Garrosthe third in a row, after sweeping the Italian in the final Jasmine Paolini6-2 and 6-1, in 1 hour and 8 minutes.
The world number 1 becomes the third player to win three crowns in Paris, after the American Monica Seles between 1990 and 1992 and the Belgian Justine Henin between 2005 and 2007.
At 23 years old, the also winner of the 2022 US Openbecomes the youngest player to win four Roland Garros tournaments and the sixth youngest to win her fifth Grand Slam.
A visibly emotional Switaek received the trophy from two legends, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
The tennis player from Warsaw seems unstoppable on this court and in this edition she has flown over the competition after in the second round she saw the precipice up close when the Japanese Naomi Osakaformer world number 1, had a match point.
Since then, Swiatek has become a serial killer on the court and has only missed 17 games, including three 6-0s.
Nothing seemed to stop the Pole, who saw the Belarusian fall in the quarterfinals on the other side of the draw. Iryna Sabalenkanumber 2 in the ranking, the only one in a position to rival her.
Fervent admirer of Rafael Nadal, Swiatek is dominating the clay court Grand Slam with an iron fist. She already has 21 wins in that tournament, the third best streak in history, only surpassed by the 29 wins of Chris Evert, the 25 of Monica Seles and the 24 of Justine Henin, but with one more victory than the German Steffi Graf.
The triumph in Paris is the crowning of a great season on clay, crowned with triumphs in Madrid and Barcelonasomething that no woman had achieved since Serena Williams in 2013.
In this way, they have 19 consecutive wins and their last defeat was in the last Stuttgart tournament.
