WTA Rome: Iga Swiatek gives Karolina Pliskova the maximum penalty in the final - and moves into the top ten
Iga Swiatek won the WTA Tour 1000 tournament in Rome. The Polish outclassed Karolina Pliskova 6-0 and 6-0.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: May 16, 2021, 03:32 pm
You need at least 24 points to win six games in a set of tennis. Iga Swiatek had already brought this to her side after a little more than 20 minutes on Sunday in the Foro Italico. Final opponent Karolina Pliskova, however, only four. Which summed up the balance of power that day.
The rather slow conditions may have suited the 19-year-old Swiatek, but the Polish woman's presentation was breathtakingly good. And Iga Swiatek didn't make the mistake of letting Pliskova back into the match. Not even in the third game of the second set, when the Czech, winner in Rome 2019 and finalist last year, found two breakballs at 15:40.
Swiatek dominated in a way that was reminiscent of her run for the French Open title in the fall of 2020. She didn't give a single sentence in seven matches.
After 45 minutes, Swiatek got her first match ball with a powerful forehand - which she also used to her third tournament victory. And to fix the first time among the ten best players in the world.
Here the single tableau in Rome
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