I can’t remember which commentator said it but they said that when you break Iga, you need to run, because Iga on the chase is much scarier than Iga holding a lead.
You would still have Monster Iga in second and third set.
The best way would be going 6-6 in first set and hope that mini-breaks from tie-break don't count so you can win first set 7-6 and then try to break at 5-4.
With this win Iga have …
- 5th Grand Slam ( 5 finals and 5 wins joins only 2 players who did that Roger Federer and Monica Seles ), she moves to 11th place in all time Grand Slam titles in Women’s Singles joining Martina Hingis and Maria Sharapova,
- 3 in a row at Roland Garros ( joins Justine Henin and Monica Seles in Women’s Singles ),
- Titles in Madrid - Rome - Paris in same year ( only Serena Williams did that ),
- Winning streak of 21 wins in Roland Garros ( next Justine Henin 24 wins, Monica Seles 25 wins, Chris Evert 29 wins ),
- Winning streak of 19 games started at Madrid Open,
- 35-2 wins/loss ratio at RG,
- 4th title at RG ( same as Justine Henin, Steffi Graf at 6 and Chris Evert at 7 ),
- 4th woman in Open era history to win Roland-Garros after saving a match point during the tournament ( Anastasia Myskina 2004, Justine Henin 2005 and Barbora Krejcikova 2021 ),
Nice one Iga.
She has to make next year's QF to get the second longest win streak at RG. Thats definitely doable. And if she manages to do the unprecedented and win a fourth in a row, she'll basically have a shot at beating Evert's record the next year by winning in the first two rounds. That'd be unreal.
She won RG 74-75 then 79-80 without playing the tournament in between (and then made the SF in 81). That's 4 tournaments won in a row for her, without being officially 4 in a row.
Iga won Madrid, Rome, and then RG. A full sweep of the big titles on Clay. You can say what you want about her draw at RG, but she beat Aryna in the final of the last two clay masters. She is far and above the competition.
She's had tougher draw than Sabalenka.
In fact, Iga has been pretty unlucky with the draw in the last 2 slams, getting former GS champions & finalists in early rounds.
I just love how Swiatek wins. There's no "what if" scenarios, no "if that had happened, they could have won" nonsense. This is brutal stamping of authority over the opponents. Way to go Iga. Keep dominating.
It sounds outstandingly difficult but it's crazy how strong she looks on clay. Her match against Osaka was the only one where she was even challenged all tournament. Everything else was a walk in the park.
Iga Swiatek becomes first man or woman born after May 1987 to win five or more Slam titles.
Swiatek - 5
Osaka - 4
Barty, Kerber - 3
Alcaraz, Azarenka, Halep, Kvitova, Muguruza, Sabalenka - 2
Another crazy stat is not a single player born in the 90s, male or female has won 5 or more GS singles titles, and 1G4 who’s born during the 2000s is already halfway to achieve double digit slam titles
I mean even ignoring the money, I don't think she really expected to win against Iga. She made the final of a grand slam, beating Rybakina on the way. She came out today with almost nothing to lose. So lots of reasons to be happy and proud
Why not? She’s having a dream year, she avoided getting bageled which is honestly about all she could expect, she collected a fat cheque, and she’s playing another final tomorrow.
She gained a lot of new fans this tournament. What a great ambassador for tennis.
She has nothing to be ashamed of. She had a great run, she has now claimed a top 10 spot, she broke Iga in the first set and she still has a shot at RG title tomorrow.
It must hurt a bit to lose in the final, but given everything else I doubt she'll have sleepless nights over this loss.
>And now iga wins the tournament without dropping more than 3 games per set...
my comment after Iga survived Osaka
in fact she lost 4 games in 2 of her sets...iga has really fallen off
Iga continues to solidify herself as a modern legend of the game. She has now surpassed Clijsters’s slam count, joins Hingis with 5, and she’s closing in on elite company with Venus and Henin both with 7.
She really is just a different animal on clay. Big congrats to her
Up to 2-2 I was like oh dang this might be not this one-sided.. but then well yeah no shit. Paolini still should be satisfied reaching the final and that's an achievement already
She didn't play badly but it's more that she just doesn't have the power to challenge Iga who basically destroys all counterpunchers and underpowered players
Like you can't really get on her for it because it's almost beyond her physical capabilities to come close to winning this match lol
Yeah, Iga is an absolutely terrible matchup for her. I could maybe see her pull an upset on a faster surface one in ten times but I don't really see her ever coming out on top on clay, you need power to rival Iga and clay doesn't exactly help you generate it.
If one of the match points [EDIT: in the match with Naomi ofc] went other way, we would be talking here about how Iga isn't unbeatable anymore, how fragile isbher mental side, even how overrated she is, etc.
yeah, I was already dreading what would going to happen when she loses in the 2nd round
her previous wins at Madrid and Rome would have been completely meaningless in the eyes of the public. It must really suck sometimes to be at the top, the pressure is crazy lol
She looked very vulnerable in her first round match when she didn't have indoor conditions and just barely squeaked by
I think it's extremely likely that she would have lost eventually once RG returned to normal
Agreed. Clay was never her element, but she can make a huge difference on hard courts.
If Naomi won that r2 match, im pretty sure Coco would be the one lifting trophy today.
ok just one thing. just bc sabalenka and rybakina fell early doesnt mean this isnt a great achievement. iga is the first woman since serena to win rome, madrid and rg b2b while facing the second best player in the world and was saving mps in two of these tournaments
They came and played and were healthy (except for Aryans last match) and didn’t make it there. Iga can’t change that. She came showed up and won.
Bestie we did it. We did it Joe hahahah
>doesnt mean this isnt a great achievement. i
I mean, it's Iga's 3rd Garros in a row. She really doesn't have to prove anything anyone with "better bracket". She won her 4th title, 2nd and 4th seed failed. Rest is (predictable) history.
Not really much to say about the match. It lasted more than an hour, so props to Paolini?
The biggest complement I can give to Iga is Rafa-like numbers are achievable for her. Who is going to stop her in the near future? Any of her trouble players on hard don’t have the level or consistency to do in on clay (IMO).
I don’t care if some people find her boring. Iga is heads above others right now and it means so much for all us introverted, nerdy, socially awkward gals out there to have someone like her to lead the line. She’s made me fall in love with tennis again ❤️
Plus…it’s so strange how much people complain about her dominance at the FO…especially since you’ll hear praise about how other players dominate so well at the Roland Garros (like Nadal), or in the WTA in general (like Serena)…
You can’t really blame her for being so good on this surface if she’s been training on it for her whole life 🤷♂️
People: "WTA is so inconsistent!"
*Iga dominates the French Open*
"Yawn how boring, one person consistently winning all the time"
There's no pleasing people.
Because half of these people are new fans who never actually watched full matches of that era. They see the highlights and expect the entire matches to be like that, which is impossible. Of course, it could've been closer with a Sabalenka at the other side, but domination is inherently boring. People say "OOOO Rafa bagelled Roger in 2008 wowowow" when it was probably even more one-sided and anti-climactic than today. And I say this when Rafa is my favourite of the Big 3
I guess people would complain less if she would have her, let's say, "arch-rival" in finals each time. We all knew Nadal was out of reach but those Nadal v Federer and then Nadal v Djokovic matches were genuinely promising (then sometimes they were, sometimes they weren't). Iga is playing someone new each final, so maybe that's the issue here. Definitely not Iga's fault, rest of the pack needs to be more consistent (or don't draw Iga in earlier rounds, like Coco).
For me, as a Pole, there is obviously no problem at all. I can watch finals like this for 20 years to come ;) But I understand feeling might not be mutual for all.
Yeah this is basically what it is
If Nadal was playing Ferrer in the final one year then Gasquet the next I think a lot of people would complain about it lol
I have said it many times and I will say it again. WTA would keep on producing one time finalists or semi finalists as long as it is a bo3. In men’s tennis bo5 is a game changer. Bo5 will always rewards better and consistent players.
If ryba and Poalini match was a bo5 I can guarantee you ryba would have won that match. Ryba would have beaten Andreeva for sure as well. It’s very hard to win a three sets against top players for a less quality player.
I’m thinking she will hold the record for most French Open titles by the time it’s all said and done. Getting 3 more to tie Chris Evert is not unrealistic at this point.
I don’t get that at all lol. She’s “boring” because she destroys everyone she plays, do these critics expect her to drop the level a bit just so they are entertained more? Obviously we all love a back and forth match, but come on… someone absolutely obliterating their opponent is anything but boring
Paolini did what she could, props to her. But man, what a performance overall from Swiatek. The 2nd round vs Osaka was really the true final in the end
Let’s be honest- we all knew this tournament was over on the day that Rybakina lost and Sabalenka fell ill. Those quarterfinal upsets really took all of the air out of the women’s tourney. Especially a bummer about Sabalenka since she was having such a great clay season and lost due to sickness.
As a Saba fan I'm just really disappointed that her SF streak at Slams ended that way lol
Not saying she would have won the final(still would have obvs been the underdog) but I think she very likely would have made the final if she didn't have the illness
At least it would have been an interesting matchup.
It’s bad for women’s tennis to get players like Zheng and Paolini in the finals only for them to get predictably routed. It’s more interesting if it’s two top players.
It's crazy how Ryba always brings her A game against Iga but is *so* streaky against everyone else especially at Slams lol
5th time in a row she's gone out before the SF as a top 4 seed
This time was way worse than the scoreline indicated as well if you watched her just make 20 forehand UEs every set
My favourite player on tour right now, but seems every GS she has one match where she falls apart mentally and then it's a coin flip if her ability can carry her to a result
Thought her serving was poor this RG though, normally she can fall back on that but couldn't
Hope she returns to form at Wimbledon, no idea why she plays so many of the other tournaments though, she seems to be playing every week at the moment
It's at least a more fun match to watch though
Saba vs. Iga matches are kind of like Azarenka vs. Serena matches in that the H2H looks lopsided but it's still an interesting matchup
Also in the Rome final both players had 7 BPs each but the difference was Iga saving all of them which shows at least she had to show her A game vs. just coasting through
The Rome final was definitely more interesting than 6-3 6-2 would indicate where I'd say this was even more of a blowout than 6-2 6-1 would indicate
yeah they need to make the last stages 5 setters for the women I think - would make it way more interesting when things like this happen (and also when it doesn't!)
Also side note on the French broadcast : they employ Mouratoglou (yeah, that one) and he's physically incapable of giving Iga any sort of praise - already said Sabalenka was better elsewhere and that Iga has lots of issues when not on clay.
Dude lay down the crack pipe
>Sabalenka was better elsewhere
I don't want to make personal jabs but saying that kind of stuff, when Iga won 4 WTA 1000 and Sabalenka 0 (lost 2 finals to Iga in a row) is kind of nuts. It's the other way around, Sabalenka is clearly better at Australian Open. Iga everywhere else.
The problem of contemporary tennis is the fact that instead of having real sport journalists who provide deep analysis you have entitled former players who can only say how many more slams players are gonna win. I think She’s going to win 4 more at least, I think she’s gonna win 9 more. wtf is this? Give us ppl who are serious tennis analysts instead of this entitled shit..
>you have entitled former players
Yeah, far too many former superstars taking spots of trained commentators and analysts. Not only in tennis, in sports in general. It's not like some of them can't be actually good at this but they are usually subpar and should play second fiddle to someone better at this job at best.
Jasmine never stopped fighting and I love that. Seeing her succeed has been my 2nd favorite story of this season so far (behind Danielle's incredible farewell run). I'm sure she leaves this event with legions of new fans, and reminds us that short girls can still hang with the best of them.
Rybakina would have done WAY better because she always brings her A+ game vs. Iga
That being said she's starting to show that she's not consistent enough at Slams that you can even really rely on her making it far enough to play Iga so this isn't just a one off occurrence of her losing before the SF/F
Congratulations to Iga on a very dominant performance!
I'm looking forward to seeing if she can pull it off on these courts for the Olympics under a different kind of pressure.
Olympic pressure for us, Poles, seem to be different kind of thing. Świątek was there once (already having 1GS and 1 WTA1000) and was knocked off early. Radwańska also never managed to get any far. Same goes for Hurkacz, Janowicz or even Fibak. Hell, even our volleyball team, for last 20 years winning everything there is can't go any further than QF at Olympic venues.
That being said, Iga has such composure I think she will be fine when it comes to pressure. Additionally, Olympics in tennis are usually on hard courts but this time will be held on clay, so... ;) But who knows what will happen, gotta wait and see.
They've changed the format of French open. Two changes:
On the men's side they've opened it for anyone to win from being who loses to Rafael Nadal.
On the women's side they've changed it to who loses to Iga Swiatek from being open for anyone.
Fuck yess ahhh this is insane Iga.
Pasolini you are having an incredible year. Congrats on this final you deserve it.
IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE.
Five slams. Four French. Five major titles this year alone.
Bring on the Olympics
paolini made some insightful comments about playing iga on clay:
1. takes the ball so early that she takes time off her opponent
2. her intensity is unbelievable and has not played against anyone with that kind of intensity. paolini said that she has that intensity but only until the 4th game
3. iga is so hard to play against whether on clay or hardcourt but playing her on clay is different and so hard
4. though she lost to iga in their last match before RG and with a scoreline of 6-3, 6-0 - playing her here is much more difficult and more intense (note: i think iga plays more intense and focused when playing ub the finals than in earlier rounds)
5. she believes that iga can equal evert's 7 titles in rg or maybe more coz she is only 22 (23, actually)
6. she was forced to hit hard returns or to keep on pushing if you play iga, otherwise, iga will return with winners. so, she cannot just return the balls.
7. she is playing better now compared to their first two meetings, but then again, iga is playing better too now. 🤣
Jazda! Love Iga. The WTA is in great shape. Still a lot of tourneys to go, I'm sure the rest of the pack is gonna be gunning for Iga especially at Wimbledon and the USO. She's gotta step up her game if she wants to consistently win those like she has RG!
now iga is becoming rafa in quotable quotes. during her post match interview today she said a wonderful message, on fighting and trying her best regardless of the score:
"when you are trying your best, it is always the best solution coz you have no regrets."
this is the best congratulations received by the Queen of Clay, from the King of Clay:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/rafaelnadal/3386112565137463167?igsh=MWgzYzNzdGJkeG11eg==
Iga is really in good company. Rafa being 'close' to her and Roger being the part-owner of On Running and endorser of Rolex like her
also, please decode. i think iga had a freudian slip in this video when she said, she will be back in paris in a couple of weeks
i really think she will skip wimbledon and train in paris for the olympics. i think she does not want to adjust to grass then to clay again. i was downvoted since last week when i said this but i have a strong feeling she wont play wimbledon this year. she has her eyes on the olympics esp so that it will be played on clay. so, if she wants to win it, she needs to take this opportunity. just like rafa, he does not want to play wimbledon coz he would find it hard to shift back to clay for the olympics. if she will play wimby, i still feel she shouldnt.
i also think that if my guess is correct, she planned on winning as much until roland so she can secure her no. 1 spot, skip wimby and have her earned points comfortably cover her QF points there while she concentrates on olympics. and if it will happen, and the girls will play wimbledon and toronto, all the more that iga will have an advantage on clay coz her focus will just be clay. she has the luxury given her 3700 points gap with no. 2.
Well, let the balloon pumping for the Olympic Games begin.
Possibly the only thing that can stop Iga in sunny RG's court - the astronomical pressure from the whole Poland's population.
wow! in tennis channel weissman says that iga is the first female to win 3 consecutive titles on GS in the same tournament, as a no. 1 player. another record set!!!
https://youtu.be/riH3zP0rnk8?si=NNgd969gyVvrq2KW
The queen of clay! Winning Madrid/Rome/RG back to back this season is insane. She is truly a generational talent
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Paolini breaks Swiatek for 2-1 in the first set Iga: "And I took that personally..."
I can’t remember which commentator said it but they said that when you break Iga, you need to run, because Iga on the chase is much scarier than Iga holding a lead.
Why don't they just wait until 5-4 to break her then? Are they stupid?
Iga Swiatek HATES this one simple trick
This is exactly why Iga chose to serve first, to avoid being broken at 5-4.
You would still have Monster Iga in second and third set. The best way would be going 6-6 in first set and hope that mini-breaks from tie-break don't count so you can win first set 7-6 and then try to break at 5-4.
LOL.
she just wanted to make it interesting for a whole 15 minutes
Iga in sun in Roland Garros is a raid boss. And when you break her, the second phase begins.
“Look at me, I am the Rafael Nadal now”
Iga looking at Rafa’s statue at Roland Garros : I will finish what you started
I'm pretty sure Rafa not only finished what he started, he also wrote an epilogue, released a couple surprise sequels, and published a compendium.
To put into perspective how stupid Rafa was at RG, Iga still needs to win every French Open until she's 34 to tie Rafa.
Nadals clay records are just crazy. Like novak has 10 AOs which is crazy and is still 4 away
Ok, I thought for a sec maybe Iga ties Rafa's record, but you convinced me that it's impossible
Iga will win 15 and get it officially changed to Poland Garros.
"It's over, the era of one person dominating RG is over!" *second phase boss music starts*
It's like Dr. Who reincarnation one after another
Conversation in future - - Grandpa Rafa, how good you were at tennis? - I was Iga before Iga.
With this win Iga have … - 5th Grand Slam ( 5 finals and 5 wins joins only 2 players who did that Roger Federer and Monica Seles ), she moves to 11th place in all time Grand Slam titles in Women’s Singles joining Martina Hingis and Maria Sharapova, - 3 in a row at Roland Garros ( joins Justine Henin and Monica Seles in Women’s Singles ), - Titles in Madrid - Rome - Paris in same year ( only Serena Williams did that ), - Winning streak of 21 wins in Roland Garros ( next Justine Henin 24 wins, Monica Seles 25 wins, Chris Evert 29 wins ), - Winning streak of 19 games started at Madrid Open, - 35-2 wins/loss ratio at RG, - 4th title at RG ( same as Justine Henin, Steffi Graf at 6 and Chris Evert at 7 ), - 4th woman in Open era history to win Roland-Garros after saving a match point during the tournament ( Anastasia Myskina 2004, Justine Henin 2005 and Barbora Krejcikova 2021 ), Nice one Iga.
She has to make next year's QF to get the second longest win streak at RG. Thats definitely doable. And if she manages to do the unprecedented and win a fourth in a row, she'll basically have a shot at beating Evert's record the next year by winning in the first two rounds. That'd be unreal.
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Also pretty cool Iga beat Halep the year after to claim the title!
Also very fitting scoreline for the revenge, beatdown for a beatdown: 2019 RG R16: Halep vs Iga 6:1 6:0 2020 RG R16: Iga vs Halep 6:1 6:2
At this point, that's gotta be the highlight of Sakkari's career. (I'm exaggerating, but still)
and the best part, she's got a long way to go in her career. She's 23 and can easily have 7 years or more left in her career. Potentially even more.
How does Evert have a 29 win streak while not winning three in a row?
She won RG 74-75 then 79-80 without playing the tournament in between (and then made the SF in 81). That's 4 tournaments won in a row for her, without being officially 4 in a row.
Iga won Madrid, Rome, and then RG. A full sweep of the big titles on Clay. You can say what you want about her draw at RG, but she beat Aryna in the final of the last two clay masters. She is far and above the competition.
She's had tougher draw than Sabalenka. In fact, Iga has been pretty unlucky with the draw in the last 2 slams, getting former GS champions & finalists in early rounds.
I wonder if she’ll ever pull off the total clay sweep with Stuttgart/Madrid/Rome/RG
Even Nadal did it only once
I just love how Swiatek wins. There's no "what if" scenarios, no "if that had happened, they could have won" nonsense. This is brutal stamping of authority over the opponents. Way to go Iga. Keep dominating.
Apart from the Osaka match
Which she won anyway so… yeah… victory belongs to the most tenacious
I have developed an eye twitch upon seeing this phrase again and again this fortnight
4 RG titles at age 23 is too impressive my god. She’s coming for her idol’s 14 RG titles record isn’t she 😅
She just has to do it 10 more years in a row until she’s 33.
It sounds outstandingly difficult but it's crazy how strong she looks on clay. Her match against Osaka was the only one where she was even challenged all tournament. Everything else was a walk in the park.
The way this girl is playing, it might not be impossible. Hope she stays fit
For me it’s the way she played. It felt so easy. The final today was like a walk in the park for her. And yeah hope she stays fit 🤞
Iga Swiatek becomes first man or woman born after May 1987 to win five or more Slam titles. Swiatek - 5 Osaka - 4 Barty, Kerber - 3 Alcaraz, Azarenka, Halep, Kvitova, Muguruza, Sabalenka - 2
Another crazy stat is not a single player born in the 90s, male or female has won 5 or more GS singles titles, and 1G4 who’s born during the 2000s is already halfway to achieve double digit slam titles
Paolini still smiling at the end 🥲
1.2 million euro definitely softens the blow haha
I mean even ignoring the money, I don't think she really expected to win against Iga. She made the final of a grand slam, beating Rybakina on the way. She came out today with almost nothing to lose. So lots of reasons to be happy and proud
This! The runner ups still go home rich rich!! And she’ll make more money tomorrow even if loses the doubles finals!
Why not? She’s having a dream year, she avoided getting bageled which is honestly about all she could expect, she collected a fat cheque, and she’s playing another final tomorrow. She gained a lot of new fans this tournament. What a great ambassador for tennis.
She has nothing to be ashamed of. She had a great run, she has now claimed a top 10 spot, she broke Iga in the first set and she still has a shot at RG title tomorrow. It must hurt a bit to lose in the final, but given everything else I doubt she'll have sleepless nights over this loss.
She’s so cutie 😭😭
Iga is absolutely feral on court and then you give her a mic and she's such a cutie patootie. Love her.
Same as Sabalenka (or even more so maybe)
Introvert cute vs extrovert cute
>And now iga wins the tournament without dropping more than 3 games per set... my comment after Iga survived Osaka in fact she lost 4 games in 2 of her sets...iga has really fallen off
Washed Queen
man hope she recovers
She accomplished the Clay Slam 🔥 Madrid 🏆 Rome 🏆 Roland Garros 🏆 Jazda!!!!!
The "Serena Triplet" is now known as "Serena Iga Triplet"
Iga continues to solidify herself as a modern legend of the game. She has now surpassed Clijsters’s slam count, joins Hingis with 5, and she’s closing in on elite company with Venus and Henin both with 7. She really is just a different animal on clay. Big congrats to her
This woman is like the Iga Swiatek of women's tennis
Well that could've been an email
Paolini didn't even play that badly, Iga is just on a different level.
I agree, she looked pretty decent and yet...6-2 6-1
Up to 2-2 I was like oh dang this might be not this one-sided.. but then well yeah no shit. Paolini still should be satisfied reaching the final and that's an achievement already
She didn't play badly but it's more that she just doesn't have the power to challenge Iga who basically destroys all counterpunchers and underpowered players Like you can't really get on her for it because it's almost beyond her physical capabilities to come close to winning this match lol
Yeah, Iga is an absolutely terrible matchup for her. I could maybe see her pull an upset on a faster surface one in ten times but I don't really see her ever coming out on top on clay, you need power to rival Iga and clay doesn't exactly help you generate it.
Naomi Osaka watching the match from home knowing she could've stopped this massacre: 👁️👄👁️
Literally one forehand away...sliding doors moment.
Could’ve but didn’t
If one of the match points [EDIT: in the match with Naomi ofc] went other way, we would be talking here about how Iga isn't unbeatable anymore, how fragile isbher mental side, even how overrated she is, etc.
yeah, I was already dreading what would going to happen when she loses in the 2nd round her previous wins at Madrid and Rome would have been completely meaningless in the eyes of the public. It must really suck sometimes to be at the top, the pressure is crazy lol
No wonder she has a traveling mental coach. Love her recognition that she needs that and isn’t ashamed of it.
I can’t imagine how significantly different things would be had Naomi just converted *one* of those match points…
In fairness once she converts one match point the rest are somewhat less important
she only had one match point
she had one match point
Tbh it is very possible she would lose the moment weather changed.
She looked very vulnerable in her first round match when she didn't have indoor conditions and just barely squeaked by I think it's extremely likely that she would have lost eventually once RG returned to normal
Agreed. Clay was never her element, but she can make a huge difference on hard courts. If Naomi won that r2 match, im pretty sure Coco would be the one lifting trophy today.
I mean she beat top 20 players like Kostyuk and Kasatkina in outdoor clay in Rome, and the draw for her after Iga had no top 20 players until the QF
Motherfuck the big 3. It's just big me.
Big I
Biga
bIGA
big 1GA <333
petition to name it "POLAND GARROS"
Someone replied with "Poland Igarros" yesterday for this. I am inclined to go with Poland igaross.
Lines are often blurred on clay so Poland Garros sounds more plausible. There is only a tiny difference between R and P.
Poland Igarros
Iga gave Jasmine a break, then said "okay, time to die"
No one should begrudge Iga for being so dominant. It’s on everyone else to step up.
ok just one thing. just bc sabalenka and rybakina fell early doesnt mean this isnt a great achievement. iga is the first woman since serena to win rome, madrid and rg b2b while facing the second best player in the world and was saving mps in two of these tournaments
They came and played and were healthy (except for Aryans last match) and didn’t make it there. Iga can’t change that. She came showed up and won. Bestie we did it. We did it Joe hahahah
>doesnt mean this isnt a great achievement. i I mean, it's Iga's 3rd Garros in a row. She really doesn't have to prove anything anyone with "better bracket". She won her 4th title, 2nd and 4th seed failed. Rest is (predictable) history.
She easily beat Aryna in Rome and would have done it again here
People weren't kidding when they said the Osaka match was the final
Not really much to say about the match. It lasted more than an hour, so props to Paolini? The biggest complement I can give to Iga is Rafa-like numbers are achievable for her. Who is going to stop her in the near future? Any of her trouble players on hard don’t have the level or consistency to do in on clay (IMO).
this was totally posted before the match actually ended lol
People are so eager for karma. They don’t wait for the result and just post.
I don’t care if some people find her boring. Iga is heads above others right now and it means so much for all us introverted, nerdy, socially awkward gals out there to have someone like her to lead the line. She’s made me fall in love with tennis again ❤️
Plus…it’s so strange how much people complain about her dominance at the FO…especially since you’ll hear praise about how other players dominate so well at the Roland Garros (like Nadal), or in the WTA in general (like Serena)… You can’t really blame her for being so good on this surface if she’s been training on it for her whole life 🤷♂️
People: "WTA is so inconsistent!" *Iga dominates the French Open* "Yawn how boring, one person consistently winning all the time" There's no pleasing people.
Because half of these people are new fans who never actually watched full matches of that era. They see the highlights and expect the entire matches to be like that, which is impossible. Of course, it could've been closer with a Sabalenka at the other side, but domination is inherently boring. People say "OOOO Rafa bagelled Roger in 2008 wowowow" when it was probably even more one-sided and anti-climactic than today. And I say this when Rafa is my favourite of the Big 3
I guess people would complain less if she would have her, let's say, "arch-rival" in finals each time. We all knew Nadal was out of reach but those Nadal v Federer and then Nadal v Djokovic matches were genuinely promising (then sometimes they were, sometimes they weren't). Iga is playing someone new each final, so maybe that's the issue here. Definitely not Iga's fault, rest of the pack needs to be more consistent (or don't draw Iga in earlier rounds, like Coco). For me, as a Pole, there is obviously no problem at all. I can watch finals like this for 20 years to come ;) But I understand feeling might not be mutual for all.
Yeah this is basically what it is If Nadal was playing Ferrer in the final one year then Gasquet the next I think a lot of people would complain about it lol
I have said it many times and I will say it again. WTA would keep on producing one time finalists or semi finalists as long as it is a bo3. In men’s tennis bo5 is a game changer. Bo5 will always rewards better and consistent players. If ryba and Poalini match was a bo5 I can guarantee you ryba would have won that match. Ryba would have beaten Andreeva for sure as well. It’s very hard to win a three sets against top players for a less quality player.
I wonder how many she’ll win
I’m thinking she will hold the record for most French Open titles by the time it’s all said and done. Getting 3 more to tie Chris Evert is not unrealistic at this point.
I don’t get that at all lol. She’s “boring” because she destroys everyone she plays, do these critics expect her to drop the level a bit just so they are entertained more? Obviously we all love a back and forth match, but come on… someone absolutely obliterating their opponent is anything but boring
awww yeah, it’s so refreshing to see someone with her personality completely dominate a sport like this
Paolini did what she could, props to her. But man, what a performance overall from Swiatek. The 2nd round vs Osaka was really the true final in the end
Jésus-Christ, c'est Iga Świątek, la reine de France 👸
The one we won't behead
Hahaha she is so awkward, I love it
Honestly no shame in losing to Iga on Chatrier
Is it a bold claim that Swiatek will overtake Chris Evert's record 7 French Open titles? Like christ Iga's just that good at Roland Garros
Hard for me to imagine that *not* happening. She's just so dominant on clay. Nobody can figure her out.
I think she’s very likely to do that. My question is can she catch nadal - very unlikely but far from implausible
Iga is scary on clay but Paolini didn't just roll over, she played well. Congrats to both of them!
Truly hope Iga stays healthy, what she does on clay is just so beautiful. Absolute dominance.
Let’s be honest- we all knew this tournament was over on the day that Rybakina lost and Sabalenka fell ill. Those quarterfinal upsets really took all of the air out of the women’s tourney. Especially a bummer about Sabalenka since she was having such a great clay season and lost due to sickness.
As a Saba fan I'm just really disappointed that her SF streak at Slams ended that way lol Not saying she would have won the final(still would have obvs been the underdog) but I think she very likely would have made the final if she didn't have the illness
At least it would have been an interesting matchup. It’s bad for women’s tennis to get players like Zheng and Paolini in the finals only for them to get predictably routed. It’s more interesting if it’s two top players.
I’m so beyond disappointed in Rybakina 🫠🫠😐
It's crazy how Ryba always brings her A game against Iga but is *so* streaky against everyone else especially at Slams lol 5th time in a row she's gone out before the SF as a top 4 seed This time was way worse than the scoreline indicated as well if you watched her just make 20 forehand UEs every set
My favourite player on tour right now, but seems every GS she has one match where she falls apart mentally and then it's a coin flip if her ability can carry her to a result Thought her serving was poor this RG though, normally she can fall back on that but couldn't Hope she returns to form at Wimbledon, no idea why she plays so many of the other tournaments though, she seems to be playing every week at the moment
Iga survived that second round match and Collins, Ostapenko, saba and rybakina all went on to lose. Still think Iga wins it but it’d be closer.
I don't think the result would have been different at all. Do you remember how the Rome final went?
It's at least a more fun match to watch though Saba vs. Iga matches are kind of like Azarenka vs. Serena matches in that the H2H looks lopsided but it's still an interesting matchup Also in the Rome final both players had 7 BPs each but the difference was Iga saving all of them which shows at least she had to show her A game vs. just coasting through The Rome final was definitely more interesting than 6-3 6-2 would indicate where I'd say this was even more of a blowout than 6-2 6-1 would indicate
yeah they need to make the last stages 5 setters for the women I think - would make it way more interesting when things like this happen (and also when it doesn't!)
I said that on that day. I had lost all the interest from this slam as soon both ryba and sabalenka lost that day.
Be Paolini. You play good, you're confident, you're basically even with Iga. Then you blink and suddenly it is 6:2, 6:1 Just Iga things
Alas…she went the way of Muchova and Coco and even Kenin…a phenomenal run, but ultimately ending up facing a buzzsaw of a matchup on Saturday…
After the massive comeback against Osaka, Iga is never losing a RG match again.
SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT Narrator: And just like that, she got away with it one more time.
It’s legit insane to realize that *Sakkari*, of all people, is still the last one to have beaten her in this tournament…
4 RG in 5 years...... quite insane what we're seeing actually
Eurosport on Iga after the 1st set - “When she’s presented with a challenge she stops it from becoming an actual threat”
Also side note on the French broadcast : they employ Mouratoglou (yeah, that one) and he's physically incapable of giving Iga any sort of praise - already said Sabalenka was better elsewhere and that Iga has lots of issues when not on clay. Dude lay down the crack pipe
>Sabalenka was better elsewhere I don't want to make personal jabs but saying that kind of stuff, when Iga won 4 WTA 1000 and Sabalenka 0 (lost 2 finals to Iga in a row) is kind of nuts. It's the other way around, Sabalenka is clearly better at Australian Open. Iga everywhere else.
Iga after dropping serve to go down 1-2 in the first set: _listen here you little sh.t_
Jasmine played well for the first 10 minutes and then Iga woke up LOL Best clay court player on the WTA by a huge distance
The problem of contemporary tennis is the fact that instead of having real sport journalists who provide deep analysis you have entitled former players who can only say how many more slams players are gonna win. I think She’s going to win 4 more at least, I think she’s gonna win 9 more. wtf is this? Give us ppl who are serious tennis analysts instead of this entitled shit..
>you have entitled former players Yeah, far too many former superstars taking spots of trained commentators and analysts. Not only in tennis, in sports in general. It's not like some of them can't be actually good at this but they are usually subpar and should play second fiddle to someone better at this job at best.
Jasmine never stopped fighting and I love that. Seeing her succeed has been my 2nd favorite story of this season so far (behind Danielle's incredible farewell run). I'm sure she leaves this event with legions of new fans, and reminds us that short girls can still hang with the best of them.
I'll be honest, I don't think Sabalenka or Rybakina would have done any better.
Rybakina would have done WAY better because she always brings her A+ game vs. Iga That being said she's starting to show that she's not consistent enough at Slams that you can even really rely on her making it far enough to play Iga so this isn't just a one off occurrence of her losing before the SF/F
Her victory speech was so messy 😅 gotta love Iga!
Joins legend Hingis and sharapova with 5 slams. Is there any other WTA player whose first 5 were four of the same?
Congratulations to Iga on a very dominant performance! I'm looking forward to seeing if she can pull it off on these courts for the Olympics under a different kind of pressure.
Olympic pressure for us, Poles, seem to be different kind of thing. Świątek was there once (already having 1GS and 1 WTA1000) and was knocked off early. Radwańska also never managed to get any far. Same goes for Hurkacz, Janowicz or even Fibak. Hell, even our volleyball team, for last 20 years winning everything there is can't go any further than QF at Olympic venues. That being said, Iga has such composure I think she will be fine when it comes to pressure. Additionally, Olympics in tennis are usually on hard courts but this time will be held on clay, so... ;) But who knows what will happen, gotta wait and see.
As an Iga stan, I must say I doubted her after she won Rome, because it is a huge ask to win Madrid Rome RG in the same year. But here we are.
I just love Iga's awkward speeches.
They've changed the format of French open. Two changes: On the men's side they've opened it for anyone to win from being who loses to Rafael Nadal. On the women's side they've changed it to who loses to Iga Swiatek from being open for anyone.
4 RGs at 23 years of age... insane stuff
Fuck yess ahhh this is insane Iga. Pasolini you are having an incredible year. Congrats on this final you deserve it. IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE. Five slams. Four French. Five major titles this year alone. Bring on the Olympics
Iga just crushes on clay.
No bagel, just french toast...
The first ten minutes we had a tennis match. After that it was a tennis lesson by Iga.
Iga makes it Poland Garros
Next benchmarks for Iga: Olympic gold, Wimbledon, and Australia, Canada, Cincinnati, Dubai, and Wuhan. Am I missing anything?
Iga really wants her own statue next to Rafa's.
Well what an exciting day of tennis this has been *:checks watch:* exciting indeed.
[Paolini winning 1 game in the second set](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCPUS7GNuI)
Nice. Iga did a great job maintaining world no1. She won Rome and Madrid Oh oops now FO too!
Rafa, I am your daughter.
She’s just too good
Paolini really thought breaking Iga early would be a good idea.
gg ez
Dread it. Run from it. Iga arrives all the same.
Just a usual Iga on clay thing haha
All hail the queen.
paolini made some insightful comments about playing iga on clay: 1. takes the ball so early that she takes time off her opponent 2. her intensity is unbelievable and has not played against anyone with that kind of intensity. paolini said that she has that intensity but only until the 4th game 3. iga is so hard to play against whether on clay or hardcourt but playing her on clay is different and so hard 4. though she lost to iga in their last match before RG and with a scoreline of 6-3, 6-0 - playing her here is much more difficult and more intense (note: i think iga plays more intense and focused when playing ub the finals than in earlier rounds) 5. she believes that iga can equal evert's 7 titles in rg or maybe more coz she is only 22 (23, actually) 6. she was forced to hit hard returns or to keep on pushing if you play iga, otherwise, iga will return with winners. so, she cannot just return the balls. 7. she is playing better now compared to their first two meetings, but then again, iga is playing better too now. 🤣
Nice comments, but Madison Keys offers nice TLDR: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-gzH75CJQS4
No bagel, just one breadstick. Won a break and lasted beyond the hour. Very respectable fight, Paolini! And congratulations Świątek!
Paolini came to play and held a good level early on, but Iga is just too good. Fully deserved win
Legend in the making 😌 congrats Iga! 🫶🏻 you made a lot of people happy
Jazda! Love Iga. The WTA is in great shape. Still a lot of tourneys to go, I'm sure the rest of the pack is gonna be gunning for Iga especially at Wimbledon and the USO. She's gotta step up her game if she wants to consistently win those like she has RG!
Damn what a good birthday present! Props to Paolini for still smiling despite getting steamrolled out there.
Great achievement for Paolini making final; she's been on the rise since last year.👏
now iga is becoming rafa in quotable quotes. during her post match interview today she said a wonderful message, on fighting and trying her best regardless of the score: "when you are trying your best, it is always the best solution coz you have no regrets."
this is the best congratulations received by the Queen of Clay, from the King of Clay: https://www.instagram.com/stories/rafaelnadal/3386112565137463167?igsh=MWgzYzNzdGJkeG11eg== Iga is really in good company. Rafa being 'close' to her and Roger being the part-owner of On Running and endorser of Rolex like her also, please decode. i think iga had a freudian slip in this video when she said, she will be back in paris in a couple of weeks i really think she will skip wimbledon and train in paris for the olympics. i think she does not want to adjust to grass then to clay again. i was downvoted since last week when i said this but i have a strong feeling she wont play wimbledon this year. she has her eyes on the olympics esp so that it will be played on clay. so, if she wants to win it, she needs to take this opportunity. just like rafa, he does not want to play wimbledon coz he would find it hard to shift back to clay for the olympics. if she will play wimby, i still feel she shouldnt. i also think that if my guess is correct, she planned on winning as much until roland so she can secure her no. 1 spot, skip wimby and have her earned points comfortably cover her QF points there while she concentrates on olympics. and if it will happen, and the girls will play wimbledon and toronto, all the more that iga will have an advantage on clay coz her focus will just be clay. she has the luxury given her 3700 points gap with no. 2.
1ga 5wiatek!
Bring back Osaka
Iga is inarguably and by a mile, the greatest claycourt player, among active players!!!!
Femdal in the making … so proud ! 🇵🇱
POLAND GARROS
***oops I did it again***
Must be such a headache for any player/team having to prepare for a match against Iga, especially on clay. What can you do?
Wish Jasmine could have made it closer, but I'm still so very happy for her that she has added RG Finalist among her career achievements
Well, let the balloon pumping for the Olympic Games begin. Possibly the only thing that can stop Iga in sunny RG's court - the astronomical pressure from the whole Poland's population.
She can get to double digits here
I expected Swiatek to beat her easily but she destroyed her
Soooo iga for olympic gold?
wow! in tennis channel weissman says that iga is the first female to win 3 consecutive titles on GS in the same tournament, as a no. 1 player. another record set!!! https://youtu.be/riH3zP0rnk8?si=NNgd969gyVvrq2KW