Iga Swiatek is 2022 Roland Garros Champion!
Written By Uche Dozie
The Pole consolidates on her fine run this year to win her sixth consecutive title.
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The World Number one downed Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-3, clinching her second Grand Slam title, her sixth consecutive title and ninth career title.
Iga Swiatek defended her title successfully dropping just a set at the end of the tournament.
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With a combined age of 39, this was the youngest singles final at Roland Garros since Iva Majoli, 19, upset Martina Hingis, 16, in 1997.
The 21-year-old ties Venus Williams’ 35 winning streak for the longest streak since 2000 and third-longest since 1990 after Saturday’s win.
The Contest
Swiatek did not waste time to win the opening set of the Roland Garros final 6-1 in 32 minutes against a nervous, erratic Coco Gauff.
The contest to an extent could be regarded as one sided as Gauff had a uncomfortable start which saw her fall 0-3.
In 20 minutes time, Iga was 4-0 against the 18-year-old, but Coco got on board by holding her serve for 1-4.
But that was the much the Floridan could get in the set as the Pole broke to win 6-1
However, the 18-year-old broke right out of the gate in the second set after Swiatek went errant, hitting 4 unforced errors to give up a break at 30. Coco led 1-0.
Gauff continued to clean things up on her side as she led 2-0.
But Swiatek got the break back after holding serve to get on the board in the second set. Swiatek broke at 15 with Gauff double-faults at 15-30 giving her two break points but the World No.1 just needed one to level it up.
Swiatek was on the ascendency in no time leading 5-2 before Gauff got one point back to put the score at 5-3.
She served to win the contest.
Meanwhile…
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Iga Swiatek is the 10th woman in the Open Era to win multiple titles at Roland Garros.
At 21, she is the 4th youngest multiple Roland Garros champion in the Open Era, behind only Monica Seles, Stefanie Graf and Chris Evert.
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Only Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have more consecutive wins than Iga this century.
Iga Swiatek has now won 18 consecutive sets in finals, has not lost more than 5 games in her last 9 finals.
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