By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, Could 24, 2026
Photograph credit score: Antoine Couvercelle/ROLEX
Dealing with concern is a prerequisite for premier champions.
Iga Swiatek was hardly spooked by a rematch with compatriot and Miami Open conqueror Magda Linette in the present day.
4-time champion Swiatek surged by way of 5 video games in a row sparking a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Linette at Roland Garros in the present day.
Former world No. 1 Swiatek improved to 43-3 lifetime in Paris.
Swiatek sped into the French Open fourth spherical for the eighth straight 12 months the place she figures to face her hardest check of the event in opposition to Madrid champion Marta Kostyuk.
The Fifteenth-seeded Kostyuk broke 4 instances dispatching 82nd-ranked Swiss Viktorija Golubic 6-4, 6-3 in 99 minutes.
A red-hot Kostyuk improved to 14-0 on clay this season—she’s the one lady within the subject undefeated on dust at Tour-level this season.
Former world No. 1 Swiatek is 3-0 vs. Kostyuk, sweeping all six units they’ve performed, together with a 6-3, 6-4 victory within the 2021 Roland Garros fourth spherical.
5 years after that loss, Kostyuk has returned to the spherical of 16 for second time.
At this time, Linette, who beat Swiatek 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 in Miami in March prompting her compatriot to half with coach Wim Fissette and rent new coach Francisco Roig, broke first and constructed a 4-3 lead.
Discovering the vary on her heavy topspin forehand, Swiatek broke at 30 for 5-4 then served out the 39-minute opener firing a forehand to transform her second set level.
Shifting fluidly and hitting with depth, Swiatek charged by way of 5 video games in a row snatching a 6-4, 4-1 lead.
Although Linette gained eight of the subsequent 9 factors closing to 3-4, Swiatek accelerated by way of her drives and closed a assured win in 85 minutes.
