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Iga Swiatek continued her impressive performance at the French Open and defeated number one seed Simona Halep in the round of 16 at the French Open 6: 1, 6: 2. The 19-year-old seed was not gave the world number two no chance and converted her second match point after 68 minutes. It is the biggest loss by a seeded player in the history of the French Open. “This week is a dream come true for me and I hope it continues,” Swiatek said after the game.
Last year it was Halep who rushed to the quarterfinals against Swiatek, who was ten years younger. In 45 minutes, the Romanian had only given up one game. This year was going to be different. Halep, who had previously won 17 matches in a row, made it through the tournament in Paris without a hitch. But Swiatek had only given up 13 games in just under three hours in the three games to the round of 16.
Halep still seemed surprised by the ten-year-old Pole’s active style of play, who made her second set point after 26 minutes, a 13-shot rally and a longline forehand winner.
Then Halep walked off the field, not an unusual move for the 29-year-old, who is trying to recover to start over. Midway through the second set it seemed briefly as if he had really found his game, Swiatek made a few more mistakes than in the first round. When the score was 1: 5, Halep still won his service game, but could no longer avoid defeat. After about an hour, Halep Swiatek’s second ball returned to the net.
“I’ll eat chocolate and tomorrow I’ll be better,” said the defeated Romanian afterward.
In the quarterfinals she faced Martina Trevisan with an equally big surprise in the tournament: the qualifier defeated Kiki Bertens, who was fifth, 6: 4, 6: 4. Bertens had already fought against the success of the preliminary round under seizures
“I came here two weeks ago to play the classification and today I am in the quarterfinals. I cannot believe it,” said the 26-year-old Italian, who will rise from 159th place in the world ranking this Monday. .
