Swiatek sweeps Jabeur and is also champion of Rome

Iga Swiatek remains completely unavoidable. The number 1 in the world was very strongly defeated Ons Jabeur and it was announced this Sunday Rome WTA 1000 champion. with clear 6-2 and 6-2the Pole once again gave a clay exhibition of the Foro Italico to continue adding sensations and records to his track record.

Swiatek, champion in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami and Stuttgart in a row Before taking a break a few days ago and stopping playing in Madrid, he had in front of him one of the players that made up, a priori, one of his biggest challenges in recent months: a Jabeur who also came to Rome in good time after becoming champion right in the Spanish capital. But Swiatek doesn’t seem to understand their rivals or their playing styles, which have converted to a tennis machine at full throttle.

The Pole will come to Roland Garros in one of the best states of form remembered in recent years in women’s tennis, raising with the passage of days an early legendary era. He certainly didn’t win the Australian Open in the semis, first losing to Ashleigh Barty in the Adelaide semis, and then stumbling against Jelena Ostapenko early in Dubai. However, it’s also true that with Barty’s retirement no one seems to have found a formula to beat him.

There have been twenty-eight consecutive victories for him. If on Saturday she equaled Serena’s twenty-seven between 2014 and 2015, now Swiatek has left her to sign the fourth-best single consecutive WTA win in the entire 21st century. Roland Garros will be challenged to beat Justine Henin’s 32 and Serena’s 34 and Venus’s 35, a record for this century. Although of course Paris is the great test for a Swiatek with the great aim of reclaiming the scepter he won in 2020 and that he gave up last year in the quarterfinals after losing against Maria Sakkari.

What he could not do then in France yes he did it this Sunday in Rome: re-validate a crown for the first time in his career. Swiatek added eighth career WTA title. They have not lost in the final since losing to Polona Horcog in Lugano 2019, the only decisive match they have lost so far. At 20 years old, who will be 21 in two weeks, Swiatek has consecutively won the WTA 1000 in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami and Rome, after that bracket in Madrid that he was not allowed to contest for the plenary session. We’ll have to wait until before the US Open to see if he can also extend an annoying streak to Canada and Cincinnati.

Everything is numbers and records because the sensations in Swiatek’s game are completely dominant. In fact, since the defeat to Ostapenko in Dubai, he only gave five sets in twenty -eight games. The sense of total control he again showed against Jabeur.

Swiatek broke his rival’s serve from the start, already catching up throughout the first set. Dominating from the bottom for months, he saw how Jabeur tried to change the tone in the second game of that partial, looking for the net. The Polish response is unmistakable: two wolves who, together with the mistakes of his rival, are benefiting him from the start. Since then, sharing the game, with feet reaching everyone, Swiatek walked with a steady step up to a 6-2 that sealed the rest.

It was a delicate moment for Jabeur and Swiatek paid him off from the start in the second set. Pole lifted the break ball to see how a forehand error by Jabeur along with his serve served him an initial 2-0 on a plate. Since, he presses the accelerator, shares right, responds backhand. Swiatek went 4-0, though Jabeur did not give up. The Tunisian recovered one of the breaks and had four chances after two games to recover the second. He did not succeed, as he did not give up his effort to close out the world number one match in two sets, which he sealed. a 6-2 double in less than an hour and a half.

So, for the first time in years, an undisputed favorite is coming for Roland Garros in the WTA. This will be the moment of great reaffirmation for Swiatek, who will seek to make his legendary year in a second Grand Slam more relevant. He now has his fifth title of the season. After another week of exhibitions, the glory of Rome is yours too.