French Open 2023: Iga Swiatek of Poland wins Women's Singles title

French Open 2023: Iga Swiatek of Poland wins Women's Singles title

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Category : Sports Published on: June 13 2023

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  • In French Open Tennis, World No. 1 and top seed Iga Swiatek of Poland won the Women's Singles crown. 
  • She defended her title against unseeded Czech Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. 
  • This is her third French title in just 5 years.
  • Poland’s Iga Swiatek became the first woman since 2007 to win back-to-back French Open titles.
  • The 22-year-old Swiatek is just the third woman in the Open era to win each of her first four Grand Slam finals.
  • Swiatek, the world number 1, is also the youngest woman to claim back-to-back French Open titles since Monica Seles in the early 1990s.
  • Swiatek has now been at the top of the WTA rankings for more than a year and has accumulated two French Open (2020, 2022) and one US Open (2022) titles in her fledgling career.
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