Poland’s Iga Swiatek became the most unheralded woman to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament in more than 40 years, taking the French Open without dropping a set, capped by a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Sofia Kenin in Saturday’s final.
Swiatek, a 19-year-old ranked 54th in the world, won her first WTA Tour title of any kind. She had played just one prior final, the fewest of any woman to lift a major trophy since at least 1979.
She is the first woman to win a major in more than 40 years without having cracked the world’s top 47, too.