The three-peat, a fifth major title and more are within Iga's reach in the women's singles final at Roland-Garros 2024
©️Loic Wacziak / FFTAnd then there were two… And one of them just happens to be in the process of building a legacy for the ages on the Parisian clay.
History will be on the line for 23-year-old Iga Swiatek in Saturday’s Roland-Garros final as she seeks to become the first player to win three consecutive women’s singles titles at Roland-Garros since 2007.
Swiatek, who owns a 34-2 lifetime record in Paris, is now 83-10 lifetime on clay – and a scary good 56-4 on her favourite surface since the start of 2022. Even her opponent, Italy’s Jasmine Paolini, is aware of the daunting challenge ahead of her.
“Iga is an unbelievable player,” Paolini said on Thursday after defeating Mirra Andreeva to reach her maiden major final. “So young, but so many achievements – and Grand Slams.”
Read on for more about the many milestones that are within reach for the world No.1, and some of the numbers that define her latest quest for glory in Porte d’Auteuil.
If Swiatek can tackle the Paolini challenge on Saturday, she would become the first player to complete a successful three-peat on the Parisian clay since Justine Henin in 2007.
The only other woman to win three consecutive titles in Paris was Monica Seles, who achieved the feat between 1990 and 1992.
If victorious, Swiatek would also move into a tie on the all-time Roland-Garros Open era women’s singles titles list with four.
Women’s singles titles at Roland-Garros, Open era:
If Swiatek can take the title on Saturday she would also become just the third player – male or female – to win the first five Grand Slam finals she contested.
She would join Roger Federer (7-0) and Monica Seles (6-0) on that lofty list. Swiatek is one of just four players to have won the first four major finals she has played in (Naomi Osaka is the other).
Five major titles would also make Swiatek the first player born after 1990 to hold as many major titles, and she would move into a tie with Martina Hingis and Maria Sharapova for 11th on the all-time Open era women’s singles Grand Slam titles list.
Swiatek is bidding to become the first player in 11 seasons to complete the rare Madrid – Rome – Roland-Garros treble by securing the title at the three most prestigious clay-court titles in the same season. Twenty-three-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams achieved the feat in 2013.
If Swiatek can reach the pinnacle again in Paris, she would stretch her Roland-Garros winning streak to 21 and take her overall winning streak, which dates back to the start of the Madrid Open, to 19.
More impressively, Swiatek would stretch her winning streak in WTA finals – a streak that started with her 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 win over Karolina Muchova in last year’s Roland-Garros final – to ten. Swiatek has won 18 of 19 sets across the last nine finals she has played.
She enters Saturday’s showdown with Paolini carrying a 22-4 overall record in WTA title matches.
Swiatek has dominated the field during most of the clay season (as her 20-1 record on the surface attests), but even when she hasn’t run away from her opponents she has been remarkable. In the Madrid final in May, Swiatek walked the tightrope and survived a coup attempt from Aryna Sabalenka, saving three match points to defeat the world No.2 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(7) in three hours and 11 minutes for her third title of the season.
With the win Swiatek became the youngest player to reach 20 WTA titles since Caroline Wozniacki in 2012.
The Pole’s back was against the wall again in the second round here in Paris, but she pulled another Houdini act on Court Philippe-Chatrier, saving a match point to survive a stern test from fellow four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, 7-6(1), 1-6, 7-5.
If Swiatek goes on to win the title in Paris, she will become the fourth woman in Open era history to win Roland-Garros after saving a match point during the tournament. Three men have also achieved the feat.
If she wins on Saturday, Swiatek would become the youngest player in Open era history to win four Roland-Garros titles. She is already the fourth player in the Open era to win her first four semi-finals on the Parisian clay after Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova.
No other player won their fourth Roland-Garros women's singles title before the age of 25, and only three – Henin, Evert and Graf – won four titles before the age of 26.
Swiatek is bidding to become the sixth youngest player in the Open era to secure a fifth women’s singles Grand Slam title. Below are the five women who won five majors (across all Slams) before turning 22, according to the WTA Tour.
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