Former Grand Slam doubles champion Chanda Rubin felt Iga Swiatek raised her stage in her previous few matches main up the French Open ultimate and mentioned that is when a prime participant is at its scariest. First-seeded Swiatek dominated her French Open quarterfinal and semifinal matches as she by no means got here near dropping a set.
Within the quarterfinal, Swiatek noticed off Jessica Pegula 6-3 6-2. Then, Swiatek crushed Daria Kasatkina 6-2 6-1 within the semifinal. “We have seen some ebs and flows from Swiatek, however via all of it, she’s actually been in a position to get again on monitor time and time once more.
The final couple of matches now, we have seen her increase her stage. That is when a prime participant is essentially the most harmful and now she’s eyeing the end line,” Rubin mentioned of Swiatek on Tennis Channel, earlier than the Pole defeated Gauff within the French Open ultimate 6-1 6-3.
Rubin: Swiatek has dealt with the stress nicely to date
Within the French Open ultimate, Swiatek defeated Gauff. Swiatek has now received her final 35 matches. . “There’s a lot at stake for Swiatek now that she is on this ultimate.
You concentrate on all of that, being perhaps on her thoughts earlier than her semifinal match. Have a look at how nicely she dealt with the nerves, dealt with that stress, and it is actually been constructing all through the match,” Rubin added.
Kasatkina was taking part in nice all through all the French Open however she stood no likelihood versus Swiatek. “She (Kasatkina) is even swiftly, however then Swiatek was in a position to separate herself the way in which she’s carried out from the sphere.
Separating her recreation,” Rubin mirrored. “There have been some nice factors the place Kasatkina obtained Swiatek off steadiness, however she was simply in a position to keep the course, get better, transfer again into the court docket continuously and it is simply troublesome for anyone to hit winners towards her and it was the identical for Kasatkina at present. A terrific win, glorious play from Iga Swiatek.”
