PARIS (Reuters) – Polish teenager Iga Swiatek turned the youngest participant to achieve the French Open girls’s last in 19 years when she crushed Argentine qualifier Nadia Podoroska 6-2 6-1 on Thursday.
The 19-year-old will meet both Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin or twice Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, who face one another on Thursday, in her maiden last look at a serious.
Swiatek had an excessive amount of poise and energy for world quantity 131 Podoroska, who was trying to turn into the primary qualifier to achieve a last at a serious in both the lads’s or girls’s singles attracts.
“I am sort of stunned, actually. I at all times knew that if I’d be in a Grand Slam last, it might be on the French Open,” Swiatek mentioned on court docket.
“I needed to play this match as a first-round match, I did not need to consider it as a semi-final in any other case I’d have been too burdened.”
Swiatek, the youngest participant to achieve the ladies’s last at Roland Garros since Kim Clijsters in 2001, raced to a 3-Zero lead and by no means launched her grip on the opening set regardless of a poor first-service proportion.
The second set was a mere formality for world quantity 54 Swiatek, who has misplaced solely 23 video games in her six matches at Roland Garros.
She ended Podoroska’s ordeal on the primary match level with a service winner.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Modifying by Toby Davis)
