Iga Swiatek celebrates her birthday with a ticket to the spherical of 16 at Roland Garros

Paris. The defending champion and world no 1, the Polish Iga Swiatek, certified this Friday, her twenty third birthday, to the spherical of 16 at Roland Garros after eliminating the Czech Marie Bouzkova (quantity 42) by 6-4, 6 -2.

After a sophisticated second spherical match on Wednesday in opposition to the Japanese Naomi Osaka (quantity 134), Swiatek stepped on the accelerator this Friday with a victory in simply over 1 hour and a half to proceed her path to a fourth title, after having been topped on Parisian clay in 2023, 2022 and 2020.

Within the first set, Swiatek broke the Czech’s serve within the third and seventh video games to distance herself on the scoreboard, and regardless of struggling a break which made it 5-4, the Pole closed the set together with her serve on the second try.

Within the second set there was hardly any response: Swiatek broke his rival’s first two serves to go forward 4-0, though he later wanted as much as 4 match factors to definitively seal his place within the spherical of 16.

After the match and throughout the interview on the foot of the courtroom, the viewers on the Philippe Chatrier courtroom sang ‘Completely happy Birthday’ to an excited Swiatek.