Iga Swiatek made history by winning the 2020 French Open after overthrowing Sofia Kenin in straight sets at the top party.
Thanks to this extraordinary achievement, the 19-year-old has now surpassed Serena Williams' record in Paris. By winning the Grand Slam title in Paris, he is currently the first Polish player (both girls and boys) to win a Grand Slam title. This is certainly an amazing achievement for an athlete who is only 19 years old.
During the French Open this season, the world number 54 defeated some of the world's best players, including the top seed, Simona Halep, who won at Roland Garros in the 2018 season.
However, even facing the biggest challenges in quite extreme conditions, not a single player has been able to win a set against the Polish national. Yes, he won the French Open for the 2020 season without losing a set.
How often have you seen 19 year olds win Grand Slam titles at Roland Garros? No, too often, of course. The Polish nationality's victory was even sweeter after she had not conceded many goals throughout the Grand Slam event.
Before the world number 54, of course there are other players who won without losing a set. But the Polish national lost only 28 games from the first round to the final. This achievement even made him superior to Williams.
When Williams won the French Open the 2013 season, he only lost one set in the quarter-finals and Williams only lost 29 games on the way to victory, but Swiatek did even better.
In addition, with just 28 games missing, he is the player who has conceded the least number of goals in Paris in the last 32 seasons after Steffi Graff dominated the 1988 French Open without losing a set, even winning the final 6-0, 6-0 over. Natasha Zvereva.
For Swiatek, this moment at Roland Garros will surely be the moment he will remember the most in his entire career.
It's a phenomenon like Monica Seles, Martina Navratilova or Steffi Graff
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