2024-05-31 15:52:20
The match between Iga Świątek and Naomi Osaka become an actual thriller. Afterwards, the Pole let her feelings run free.
It was the primary huge spotlight of this French Open: the ladies’s second spherical match between Iga Świątek and Naomi Osaka. The duel between the world primary and the previous primary lasted two hours and 57 minutes. In an unprecedented comeback, the Pole was capable of flip a 1:4 and a pair of:5 deficit within the third set and truly win the match 7:6 (7:1), 1:6, 7:5.
The 22-year-old’s dream of successful the Grand Slam match in Paris for the fourth time after 2020, 2022 and 2023 lives on – however the thriller in opposition to Osaka on Wednesday has apparently left its mark on Świątek.
In a video, the four-time Grand Slam winner will be seen mendacity on a bench after the match and crying uncontrollably. Świątek repeatedly holds a hand in entrance of her face to cover her tears, apparently nonetheless emotionally shaken by the match.
Świątek had already paid tribute to her opponent, at the moment solely quantity 134 on the earth rankings after her maternity depart: “Naomi performed unbelievable tennis and took a number of dangers. Possibly she’s going to change into a clay court docket specialist,” mentioned the winner. “I am joyful that she’s again and taking part in so properly.”
Osaka was additionally nonetheless below the impression of the duel for a very long time. The Japanese participant defined on the press convention after the match: “I cried after I left the court docket.”
Within the third assembly between the 2 superstars, it was the second victory for Świątek. The at the moment finest tennis participant on the earth celebrated her first victory over Osaka within the last of the Masters in Miami 2022, successful 6:4, 6:0. Osaka had gained the very first sport between the 2: within the spherical of 16 in Toronto 2019, she gained 7:6 (7:4), 6:4.