The number one adds her third Grand Slam, the first outside the country of Paris
Poland’s Iga Swiatek, the best player in the world, has finally taken her crown away from the land of Roland Garros, the one who saw her become champions twice. In another stunning performance, Swiatek, the world’s first racquet, defeated Ons Jabeur (6-2 and 7-6 (5)) and added the third Grand Slam to his record in a dream season.
It took an hour and 53 minutes to claim the throne of New York from Warsaw, the one in which Emma Raducanu was surprisingly crowned last season and in which normality reigned this year. The best player of the season and the world won. If Swiatek is okay, no one can cough him. It was experienced in her flesh by a Jabeur who has lost two consecutive Grand Slam finals after losing to Elena Rybakina at Wimbledon. The Tunisian is still pursuing the dream of being the first Arab tennis player to win a Grand Slam. He doesn’t stop breaking down barriers, but the big dream resists him.
It’s no surprise that Swiatek stopped him on Saturday. The 21-year-old Polish has had a sublime season, bordering on perfection, with a winning streak of 37 matches, with seven titles (Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, Rome, Roland Garros and the US Open) and with the number one in his possession. There will be the eternal doubt that he didn’t experience that rivalry with Ash Barty, the one who left him the throne on a platter with his premature retirement.
If there was any doubt as to who would capture the Australian’s legacy, Swiatek soon expelled them. From February until now, Swiatek has been the clear dominator of the circuit and her latest casualty was a US Open which she won with just two sets lost and with a final that wasn’t overly brilliant, but fair to her best interests.
Jabeur continues to suffocate in situations of extreme pressure and as an example were her early sets, which condemned her. He started 3-0 in both sets, a record he took on. Swiatek, after a brilliant start with twelve of the first fourteen won, gave in too much from there, more than she would have liked, and had the Tunisian row to 3-2 in the first set. An immediate breakthrough of the number one was the necessary run-up to register the first quarter.
Jabeur, who won the first set against Rybakina in the Wimbledon final, now had to face the pressure to come back from a set. Fear eats him up and Swiatek was placed at 3-0 and had three balls to make it 4-0.
This did not bring down the Tunisian, who began to play better with the game already on the canvas. He rowed, rowed and rowed and balanced the match, saved a championship point and sent the match and title to a tiebreaker. The Arab tennis player lived on a thin line, very difficult to cross, as the 33 unforced mistakes she ended the match with were a tomb for her stock tennis.
And the balance didn’t hold. In a very tense tiebreak, Jabeur was unable to hold his wrist. He had 5-4 in favor and two aces for a third set. Swiatek took the last three points from him with one blow and took the title, the third Grand Slam of his career.
The Pole put the finishing touches to the campaign and shows that she can also succeed in the Grands on clay and outside of Paris. The Warsaw one will wake up Monday as more number one in the world than ever, with 10,300 points, double that of second-ranked Jabeur himself. The women’s circuit is yours.
Source: La Verdad
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