French Open 2022: Iga Swiatek Won Against Coco Gauff in the Final

Imperial, Iga Swiatek sweeps away Coco Gauff and wins a second title at Roland-Garros in French Open 2022.

The Polish Iga Swiatek, world number one, won her second Grand Slam title at Roland-Garros on Saturday, after that of 2020, after a perfectly controlled match against the young American Coco Gauff (6-1, 6- 3).

The Polish world No.1 Iga Swiatek offered herself on Saturday, four days after celebrating her 21st birthday, a second title at Roland-Garros by sweeping the American Cori Gauff (23rd), 6-1, 6-3 in the final. in 1h08.

She knew she was expected. Moreover, she assumed her status until the end: largely favorite of her final, Iga Swiatek won her second title at Roland-Garros, easily dominating Coco Gauff (6-1, 6-3), in 1h08. Two years ago, then 54th in the world, the Pole won the tournament without losing a set.

Undefeated since February 7

She gave up one this fortnight (in the round of 16, against the Chinese Qinwen Zheng). However, the performance is in fact more impressive: undefeated since February 7 (and a defeat in the round of 16 in Dubai against Jelena Ostapenko), the number 1 World knew he was under pressure. She absorbed it in a big way.

Her only alert came at the start of the second act, where some excessive haste gave the break to the American. Which led to 2-0 in stride. But a redacted game at 2-1 (failed drop shot, double fault, forehand error) put Iga Swiatek back in the saddle. World number 1 then resumed its demolition business. Another break at 3-2 sealed the fate of the final. At 5-3, an out-of-bounds forehand return put an end to the lone rider.

Iga Swiatek concluded with an overly long return from Coco Gauff, as thunder began to rumble in the distance. Throughout the match, she caused lightning to fall on the court, overtaking an opponent who may have been overwhelmed by the event, her very first major final.

The Pole, who now has two Grand Slam titles to her name after Roland-Garros 2020, has also had the 35th victory in a row.   She now won the 9th title of her career on the circuit, the 6th in a row this year after Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, and Rome.

She also becomes the first multi-titled player at Roland-Garros since Serena Williams. Serene won her 3rd title there in 2015. She was the youngest multi-titled Grand Slam player since Maria Sharapova, who won her 2nd Major at the US Open in 2006 aged 19.

Helpless Gauff

For his part, Gauff, who had not lost a single set of the tournament so far, will reach his best ranking on Monday, 13th in the world.

She will have another chance to lift a trophy at Roland-Garros on Sunday in the final of the ladies’ doubles. There she plays with her compatriot Jessica Pegula against the French Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic.

Probably very nervous, Gauff completely missed her start to the game: after three unforced errors and a double fault, she gave in her service game, then again in a long third game, and found herself trailing 4- 0.

 

The American won her first game after 23 minutes for 4-1.

But Swiatek had time to settle in, set up his game, and build his confidence. However, she concluded the first set by taking her opponent’s face-off for the third time in 32 minutes.

Against all expectations, it was Coco Gauff who started the second set the best by succeeding in the break to lead 2-0. But Swiatek won the next five games and then served for the match at 5-3.

Imperial on his service, Swiatek conceded – and lost – only one break point, at the start of the second set.

Coco Gauff has committed too many unforced errors (23), which is more at key moments, to threaten her opponent.

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