ROME, May 19 — Iga Swiatek refused to take victory at the French Open for granted despite romping to a third Rome title when sweeping aside Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-3 in...
Poland's Iga Swiatek poses with her trophy after winning the Women's final against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka at the WTA Rome Open tennis tournament at Foro Italico in Rome on May 18, 2024. — AFP picROME, May 19 — Iga Swiatek refused to take victory at the French Open for granted despite romping to a third Rome title when sweeping aside Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-3 in Saturday’s final.
She can join Williams in a European capital city hat-trick if she wins her fourth French Open title, and third in a row, with the clay-court Grand Slam starting in Paris on May 26.“Obviously I am confident. I feel like I’m playing great tennis but that doesn’t change the fact that I just want to stay humble,” Swiatek told reporters.
The Pole took her winning record over Sabalenka to 8-3 in another hugely impressive display from what has been an almost flawless tournament from the four-time Grand Slam winner, who didn’t drop a single set on her way to another championship victory. Going into Saturday’s final Swiatek had won 97 percent of her matches in which she went one set ahead since the start of 2022 and Sabalenka didn’t help her cause by wasting seven break points over two games in the second set.
“In the second set I just tried to stay a little bit more aggressive... I just tried to put her a little bit under pressure.
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