Iga Swiatek qualified on Thursday June 8 for her third final at Roland-Garros. The Polish, world number 1, beat the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia in two sets (6-2, 7-6[9-7]) in the semi-finals. The defending champion will face, on Saturday, in the final, the Czech Karolina Muchova victorious against the world number 2, Aryna Sabalenka.
Haddad (27) is nevertheless, by far, the player who has given Swiatek the most trouble since the start of the Paris fortnight. Even if the world number 1 will appear in the final on Saturday without having missed a single set.
Swiatek will play the fourth Grand Slam final of his career. She hasn’t lost any yet. In addition to Roland-Garros 2022, she won for the first time on clay in Paris in 2020 and at the US Open in 2022. Her qualification for the final associated with the defeat of Sabalenka ensures the 22-year-old Polish woman to remain world number 1 at the end of the tournament. Swiatek becomes the youngest player to reach her third French Open final since Monica Seles between 1990 and 1992.
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