After nearly two weeks of action in Paris, the 2023 Roland Garros Final on the WTA side will take Centre Stage on Saturday afternoon with TennisUpToDate providing a preview.
A potential three-time Roland Garros champion and four-time Grand Slam winner faces a maiden Grand Slam finalist aiming to topple the Queen of Clay.
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Swiatek's road to the final
Iga Swiatek, the current World No.1 will keep top spot come what may on Saturday but will now turn her attention instead of rankings to legacy.
Swiatek has had it fairly easy in part during this tournament. Only losing five games up to the Quarter-Finals in wins over Claire Liu, Xinyu Wang and Lesia Tsurenko. She lost six against Coco Gauff but still won through relatively unscathed in straight sets.
Beatriz Haddad Maia looked the most likely to take a set off the World No.1 in the semi-finals, but again it was straight sets for Swiatek.
This coming off losing to Elena Rybakina in Rome with injury concerns, losing to Aryna Sabalenka in the final of Rome after defeating her in Stuttgart and not having the best start to the clay court season.
Muchova's road to the final
While in her full comeback season after a tennis hiatus, Karolina Muchova has upset the form book over the past two weeks in Paris.
Muchova took down Aryna Sabalenka who spurned match points and allowed the Czech ace to mount the ultimate comeback. But it has been tough tie after tough tie for Muchova.
She is currently in the top 16 in reaching the final going up 27 places and could yet break into the World's Top 10 by emulating her compatriot Barbora Krejcikova with the ultimate shock triumph.
Starting at 43rd in the world coming into the tournament, Maria Sakkari facing her would've felt why always me in a deja vu back to back yearly defeat to the Czech.
But Sakkari lost to the eventual finalist in the end as she then took down in straight sets Nadia Podoroska, Irina Begu, Elina Avanesyan and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Her only set loss came against Sabalenka where of course she nearly lost. She also holds the advantage of a Head to Head lead with a win in Prague back in 2019.
Muchova leads head to head with one match in 2019
Albeit over a different surface, Muchova will take solace from that going into their clash.
Swiatek though has 13 consecutive wins in Paris and will be the big favourite going into the final to continue her Rafael Nadal esque dominance of the clay courts in France.
Can Muchova stop her at all or will Swiatek reign supreme? The final begins at around 15:00 CET on Saturday.
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