The number one favorite on the women’s individual table, the Polish Iga Swiatekreached the round of 16 of the Paris 2024 Games for the first time after the Frenchwoman was eliminated Diane Parry by 6-1 and 6-1, in one hour and fourteen.
The player from Warsaw used the usual authority to progress in the draw and expand his hopes on the podium. He has already bettered what he got at Tokyo 2020, in his Olympic debut, when he was eliminated by the Spanish Paula Badosa in the second section, the one that was just overcome.
This is small luggage for Swiatek the round of 16, where they will play against the winner of the clash between the Chinese Xiyu Wang and the neutral Diane Schneider. The winner of five Grand Slam tournaments, four in Paris and another at the United States Open, doesn’t care about the gala, 59th in the WTA rankings and a debutant at the Games.
Swiatek aims in Paris to become the second player to win the Roland Garros women’s singles title and the women’s singles Olympic gold medal in the same year, after Steffi Graf, who won all 4 Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold singles in 1988
Source: La Verdad
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