OlympicTalk · Oct 10, 2020
Iga Swiatek sweeps Sofia Kenin for bonkers French Open title
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. Women have won Grand Slams with lower rankings at the time, but they were former top-20 players coming back from injury, pregnancy or retirement.