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Iga Swiatek: I don't know what I'm going to chase next after French Open win and 35-match run

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Iga Swiatek admits she doesn’t know what she is going to «chase” next after winning her second Grand Slam title in dominant fashion at the French Open.

World No. 1 Swiatek delivered on her pre-tournament status as the heavy favourite as she won in Paris for the loss of just one set.

Ad/> She crushed Coco Gauff for the loss of just four games in the final to secure her 35th victory in a row, equalling Venus Williams for the longest winning streak this century.

Roland-Garros'She's the best in the world' — Lewandowski pays tribute to Swiatek after Paris gloryYESTERDAY AT 18:01 She will now head to the grass and look for a record 36th consecutive win, as well as a third major title at Wimbledon. “I think I was always chasing that second Grand Slam because I always thought, 'OK, the first one happened, but the second one is confirmation that you actually know what you're doing,’” Swiatek told WTA Insider. “I always had huge respect for Garbine [Muguruza], Simona [Halep], there are a lot of players who won two.

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Poland's Iga Swiatek extended her lead at the top of the WTA rankings released on Monday after her French Open triumph in Paris over American Coco Gauff, who moves closer to the Top 10. The 21-year-old Polish star took the world number one ranking after Australian Ashleigh Barty retired early in April. And after claiming her 35th successive victory in Roland Garros, she now has over 4,300 points advance on new world number two Anett Kontaveit of Estonia. Kontaveit climbed three spots despite her first round exit in Paris, benefiting from French Open title-holder Barbora Krejcikova's early upset.
Iga Świątek won her second French Open title on Saturday after defeating Coco Gauff in straight-sets.
Coco Gauff wept in her courtside chair, cried on the trophy podium and sobbed again in the press room as the US teenager admitted her French Open final defeat Saturday was a "lot to handle". Gauff, 18, and the youngest finalist at a major since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004, was swept off court by world number one Iga Swiatek 6-1, 6-3 in just 68 minutes. After a tournament which had seen her celebrate her high school graduation and then win widespread praise for an impassioned plea to end gun violence in the United States, defeat to the Pole was a bitter end.

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