Iga Swiatek trembles but triumphs for the third time at Roland Garros

Iga Swiatek trembles but triumphs for the third time at Roland Garros

She was the favorite and she won but Iga Swiatek had to sweat the proverbial seven shirts to beat in two hours and 46 minutes with a score of 6-2 5-7 6-4 in the Roland Garros women’s singles final the Czech Karolina Muchova, world number 43 and revelation of the tournament with her violent but at the same time very brilliant tennis full of variations and descents at the net, who will now rise to number 16, her best ranking.

For the 22-year-old from Warsaw, Poland, ranked No. 1, it is the third triumph on the Paris clay after those in 2020 and last year and the fourth in a Slam, but for the first time she lost a set in the final of a Major. The match seemed to be without history when Swiatek quickly went to 3-0 and then made another break in the eighth game, moreover to zero, with which she took home the first partial, and went ahead 3-0 in the second set as well.

But Muchova slowly regained the game that had enabled her to beat Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals, recovering the break in the fifth game. At 4-4 there are three consecutive breaks, two of them in Muchova’s favor, who extends the match to third set point after having two of them cancelled.

The 26-year-old Czech native of Otomuc goes ahead 2-0 in the decisive partial after breaking in the first game but the world number 1 reacts immediately recovering it in the fourth game but in the seventh she loses her service again to two beautiful attacks by Muchova who, however, eventually collapses losing the last three games and closing in the worst way: with a double fault.