He is not the most academic and his tennis still has a wide margin for improvement, but he plays with the same naturalness as if he did it in any park in Warsaw.
He said after beating
Nadia Podoroska
in the semifinals that he had tried to approach the match as if it were a first-round match.
And with that same attitude, he has walked until he won, at 19, in his second participation at Roland Garros, the first Grand Slam of his career, after defeating
Sofia Kenin.
, fourth in the world, by 6-4 and 6-1, in one hour and 24 minutes.
His name is
Iga Swiatek
and he always wears white, a long shirt, leggings and sneakers of the same color.
She is the first Polish woman or man to win a
major
.
On Monday we will see her as number 17 in the world, after arriving in Paris with the number 54th.
Swiatek came out like a missile, just as he has been doing to complete victories as impressive as the one achieved against
Simona Halep
in the round of 16.
He had a set point with 5-3 on service, but had to wait for the tenth game to get an advantage.
He is a cannon to the rest: he has achieved 38
breaks
throughout the tournament, six of them in the final.
No solutions
Kenin, with a compression bandage on his left leg, required medical attention after the set and briefly went to the locker room.
Nor did he find solutions there.
The Australian Open champion happens to be one of the strongest tennis players on the circuit, but in Paris no one has found the antidote to contain Swiatek.
She is the first player to win the title without losing a set since
Justine Henin did
in 2007. And the ninth different champion in the last 14 Grand Slam tournaments.
It does not seem like a casual phenomenon.
He has plenty of arguments to establish himself in the vanguard group.
After squatting in the center of the court and putting his hands to his face in a gesture of disbelief, he asked the chair umpire for permission to go up to the stands and embrace one by one all the people gathered in his box, including he found his entire family, also his father,
Tomasz
, an Olympic rower rowing at the Seoul 88 Games. "He taught me to be a professional," he said, apologizing for not being able to put together his words.
"I love him," he concluded.
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