Poland’s Iga Swiatek holds the trophy after successful the ladies’s ultimate of the French Open tennis event in opposition to Italy’s Jasmine Paolini on the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Saturday, June 8, 2024.
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Iga Swiatek gained her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in 5 years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 within the ultimate on Saturday.
The highest-seeded Swiatek trailed 2-1 early in Courtroom Philippe Chatrier earlier than taking the subsequent 10 video games to say the opening set and go up 5-0 within the second. She stretched her successful streak at Roland Garros to 21 matches and her profession report on the place is now 35-2.
The 23-year-old from Poland is the primary lady with three trophies in a row in Paris since Justine Henin from 2005 to 2007.
Swiatek additionally gained the French Open in 2020 and the U.S. Open in 2022 and is now 5-0 in main finals.
The Twelfth-seeded Paolini, a 28-year-old from Italy, was showing in a Slam ultimate for the primary time.
She had by no means been previous the second spherical at one of many 4 most vital tennis tournaments till attending to the fourth spherical on the Australian Open in January. Paolini will play within the French Open ladies’s doubles ultimate on Sunday with companion Sara Errani in opposition to 2023 U.S. Open singles champion Coco Gauff and Katerina Siniakova.
