The final Roland-Garros between Iga Swiatek, world No. 1, and Coco Gauff will designate the invincible Pole or mark the arrival of an announced phenomenon.
As expected in the rain on Saturday, forcing the roof to close, this thrilling finale seems to have fallen from the sky after two weeks upside down. A week of slaying play was enough to drop all the names in the top 10, in the third round, except for Iga Swiatek who was still standing.
A new coronation in Paris after his surprise coronation in the fall of 2020 will mark three months of unchallenged child domination from Warsaw, just 21 years old. I have the impression that everything stays the same this season, the physical, tennis and mental activitiesdescribes who changed coach during the offseason.
First, Iga Swiatek will be the first winner to win at Porte d’Auteuil more than once since Serena Williams in 2015. Then, she will match her sister Venus Williams ’insane winning streak: 35 in 2000, a record in the 2000s.
Two names, or rather first names, describing the heights at which the Polish woman is currently floating. His journey maintains less suspense than that The crime of the Orient Express, one of many books eaten by cerebral Swiatek since the beginning of his stay in Paris. In six games, he dropped only one set.
Gauff with no complexity
Not enough to scare his opponent, Coco Gauff, 23rd in the world, undefeated. Nearly three years after his revelation to the general public, the American has finally reached a grand slam final.
In 2019, she exploded in the eyes of the world by knocking out Venus Williams at Wimbledon. A few weeks later, she won her first WTA tournament in Linz and in January 2020 offered defending champion Naomi Osaka the third round of the Australian Open. All at 15 years old.
Coco Gauff got through so early that he seemed to be late. Alas if at 18 years old and 83 days old, she is the youngest finalist in Paris since Kim Clijsters in 2001 and the youngest in the grand slam since Maria Sharapova’s coronation at Wimbledon in 2004.
People have the right to be disappointed, no problemsweeps Patrick Mouratoglou, who saw him hit the ball for the first time when he was 10 years old, during a detection at his academy where he has been training regularly ever since.
That’s why they made him not him, he told AFP. Because he was so young, he won battles, everyone said he would win the Grand Slam right away. Yes, it wins, but it takes time to develop a certain number of weapons and especially to erase the technical problems that are real disabilities.
From one game against Trevisan to another, the Floridian showed all his progress. When he collected 19 double faults against Florentine in the second round of Roland-Garros 2020, he only made four in the semi-finals on Thursday.
Between 15 and 20 double faults per game, it’s hard to wincommented Patrick Mouratoglou, long-time coach of superstar Serena Williams.
Teenage girls have often been crowned grand slams in recent years: Bianca Andreescu at the United States Open in 2019, Swiatek at Roland-Garros in 2020, Emma Raducanu at Flushing Meadows in 2021. There is no doubt that Coco Gauff is the most anticipated.
Floridienne at just 14 years old eliminated the junior portion of Roland-Garros then the prestigious Orange Bowl, reserved for those under 18 years old.
I think, before, I forced myself too much to get resultswill deliver the undefeated grand slam semi-final before this edition of the French Open.
This pressure, he has learned to tame ever since. Will he really face Swiatek, who he hasn’t denied a round to in two confrontations?
Hunting record
If Iga Swiatek signs her 35th win on Saturday, she will have a long way to go if she wants to catch up with the record holder of the winning streak since the creation of the WTA in 1973, Martina Navratilova, author of a series of 74 successes that immediately coincided with the 1983 and 1984 seasons.
In fact, Navratilova has had four of the top 10 consecutive wins in women’s tennis history.
Source: Radio-Canada
