"It’s my favourite place on tour": Swiatek continues reign as Queen of Clay at Roland Garros with third title
WTASunday, 11 June 2023 at 08:00
Iga Swiatek
stated that Roland Garros is her favorite tournament after defeating Karolina
Muchova in the final and winning her third French Open title.
The Polish
player came into Roland Garros as the clear favorite, being the world No. 1 and
the champion of the trophy in 2020 and 2022. Swiatek has shown success on all
surfaces, but it is on clay where she has achieved her best results and
established herself as the tour's best player on that surface.
With a
record of 28-2 at the French Open, the athlete had to overcome the comeback
attempts of her opponent Karolina Muchova in the final, who fought to extend
the match when it seemed that Swiatek was heading for another dominant victory
in the tournament.
After
winning the trophy in a challenging final, the Polish player made her
statements.
"First
of all, congrats to Karolina, members of my team are witnesses that ever since
we first played, I knew we would play tough matches, tough finals because I was
really struck with your variety on court and I really hope we’re going to have
many more finals.
"I
wouldn’t be here without my team, sorry for being such a pain in the… I’ll try
to do better, I know I won this tournament but it wasn’t easy being on tour for
a couple of weeks without any breaks, it’s tough so I’m really happy we can
feel satisfied right now and just celebrate, so thank you guys,” Swiatek added.
"Thank
you to my family as well, so many people came from Poland, I really feel the
love so thank you.
"I
know I’ve been saying that every year but it’s not about the performance, I
really love being here and it’s my favourite place on tour so thank you
everybody, tournament sponsors, people behind the scenes, you make this
tournament so great for us that it’s always a pleasure to come back and give
100% so thank you guys,” world No. 1 said.
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"I
also want to thank my sponsors and you guys for coming and giving us the
energy, it was so loud, incredible really and I hope next year the atmosphere
will be even better so thank you for coming, enjoy!"
Polish
player entered the tournament under the pressure of losing the world No. 1
ranking to Aryna Sabalenka, who had achieved a series of good results in the
past few months.
Cristhián AvilaTennis Journalist
Cristhián Ávila is a tennis journalist based in Santiago, Chile, and has been part of the TennisUpToDate team since early 2023. He covers the ATP and WTA Tours as well as all four Grand Slams, producing breaking news, match reports, analysis, and regular liveblogs from major tournaments.
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