Teen dream: 19-year-old Iga Swiatek units up French Open ladies’s ultimate date with Sofia Kenin after dominant semi-final efficiency

The French Open trophy will carry e a brand new winner’s identify this yr after Polish teenager Iga Swiatek stormed into the ultimate with a decisive win towards Nadia Podoroska to arrange a date with Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin.

Swiatek took simply 70 minutes to bypass the problem of Podoroska (6-2, 6-1) to succeed in her first ever main ultimate, whereas Kenin, 21, triumphed over Czech seventh seed Petra Kvitova (6-Four, 7-5).

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A lot of Swiatek’s efficiency got here behind a strong forehand shot which typically clocked greater than 80 miles per hour and was employed quite a few instances all through the 22 groundstroke winners she managed within the transient contest. 

Podoroska, the primary qualifier to ever attain the French Open ladies’s semi-final, sometimes threatened together with her personal forehand however wasn’t afforded any time to discover a rhythm by the in-form Pole. 

“I am shocked,” Swiatek mentioned afterward.

“However I all the time knew if I used to be going to succeed in a Grand Slam ultimate it could be the French Open. It is like a dream come true.

“I needed to play this match as if it was the primary spherical, I did not wish to suppose it was a semi-final, as a result of it could have burdened me out.”

She should preserve her kind if she is to get previous Australian Open champion Kenin, regardless of the American showing extra labored in her straight units win towards Kvitova – who was showing in her first semi-final at Roland Garros since 2012.

Kenin was within the ascendancy early as she took an early Four-1 benefit within the first set. Two time Wimbledon champion Kvitova mounted a comeback however was unable to salvage the primary set. She dropped serve twice within the second set, with the second at 5-5, affording Kenin a chance to serve for the match which she gratefully accepted. 

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