Women’s world number-one Iga Swiatek took on the unseeded Karolína Muchová, of the Czech Republic, in a thrilling three-set match.
Iga Swiatek—who turned 22 during the tournament—took on the unseeded Karolína Muchová, of the Czech Republic, in a thrilling three-set match, winning 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. Swiatek, of Poland, was the top-seeded player at Roland-Garros, eyeing her third win there and her fourth Grand Slam title overall. And indeed, she was on a fiery streak going into today’s final, having won in straight sets for the last few weeks—and at all of her prior appearances in finals.
Her big win in Paris today made Swiatek the first woman player to take two consecutive titles at the French since Justine Henin did it in 2006 and 2007, and only the fifth woman in the Open era to win three. Swiatek is now also the youngest woman to win four career major titles since Serena Williams did it at 20, 21 years ago.
Swiatek’s 26-year-old opponent Muchová, however—the world number-43—played some exceptional tennis at her maiden Grand Slam final. On an astonishing 5-0 winning streak against top-three players going into this match , Muchová, who left Roland-Garros in tears last year after suffering an ankle injury, forced Swiatek to her first third set in a major final.
Swiatek held her next game before the tables began to turn. With her powerful forehand and fearlessness at the net, Muchová dialed up the intensity in the second set’s back half, prompting Swiatek to lose her characteristic cool and do a bit of yelling at her box as Muchová broke her in three straight games. Swiatek seemed shaken, to say the least, when she finally lost her first set of the tournament, a doozy at 68 tense minutes.
At its start the third set was tough for the Pole, as Muchová earned an early break. Yet Swiatek soon took that break away to tie the set at 2-2, enjoying an easy service game directly thereafter. A pattern of holds and breaks would follow until the set was once again tied at 4-4. But after a scary break point in the ninth game, Swiatek held—and, after a double fault from Muchová in the match’s final game, she clinched the championship point.
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