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Polish sensation Iga Schwentek is the new Roland Garros champion. The 19-year-old defeated Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin with 6: 4, 6: 1 in one hour and 24 minutes. Thus, the Warsaw tennis player repeated the feat of Justin Henin in 2007, when the Belgian won the trophy without losing a set during the two weeks in Paris. She is also the first competitor from Poland to lift a Grand Slam title.
The success will bring the 54th in the world 2000 points for the world ranking, which from tomorrow will be in 17th place and 1.6 million dollars.
Schwentek started the match convincingly with a breakthrough on his opponent’s first pass. He strengthened with a game at 15 and in 8 minutes he shot 3: 0.
The Russian-born American took her first game, conceding 2 points to the opponent, reducing the score to 3: 1.
However, the advance was returned before the second break after 2 unprovoked errors, a lap winner from Kenin and a double error from the Pole. – 3: 2.
The Melbourne champion’s rising performance continued and tied at 3: 3 on her next pass without much difficulty.
However, the Warsaw-born tennis player recovered with difficulty, but again successfully took the lead in the result: 4: 3.
In the eighth game, Schwentek broke again, this time after a long eighth game in which the server had to score break points, but ultimately collapsed.
However, Kenin did not give up and returned the breakthrough – 5: 4.
The inspired Pole still had the last word and in the eleventh game she made a third breakthrough, which closed the first set.
At 2: 1 for the 19-year-old in the second half, her opponent took a medical timeout due to problems with her left thigh.
Upon his return to the court, Kenin made a breakthrough at age 15 after some unprovoked errors from his rocket.
The break solidified and Schwentek made a new one to zero.
The last game of the match passed without drama (game at 30) and Iga closed the match with 6: 1.
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