Iga Swiatek kept her French Open title defence and an impressive Grand Slam streak alive with a convincing win over Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n
The world No 5 faced little trouble in a blockbuster second-round contest inside Court Philippe Chatrier on Wednesday, breezing past fellow Grand Slam winner Raducanu<\/a> 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n Swiatek\u2019s<\/a> triumph continues her dominant head-to-head over Raducanu, with the Pole having won all five matches \u2013 and all 10 sets \u2013 the two have contested.<\/p>\n \u201cI just want to play my game,\u201d said Swiatek.<\/p>\n \u201cFor sure, I felt good on court. I felt I could do whatever I planned to, whatever I wanted to. I just needed to adjust to the wind as conditions were pretty tricky today.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy that I did that well and that I\u2019m through.\u201d<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz trails only Rafael Nadal & Bjorn Borg in incredible clay stat after French Open win<\/a><\/p>\n Casper Ruud set for major rankings drop after stunning French Open exit<\/a><\/p>\n Victory for Swiatek was her 23rd straight win at the French Open, the Pole having not lost at this tournament since a 2021 quarter-final loss to Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n The Pole now holds a staggering 37-2 record overall at the tournament, with her only other defeat coming to Simona Halep on her tournament debut back in 2019.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Roland Garros also represents the 21st straight Grand Slam tournament where the world No 5 has reached at least the third round.<\/p>\n Swiatek has not tasted defeat before round three at a major since her US Open debut in 2019, where she was beaten in the second round by 12th seed Anastasija Sevastova.<\/p>\n In the Open Era, only Martina Navratilova (35), Conchita Martinez (30), and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (25) have achieved more consecutive round-three appearances at Grand Slams.<\/p>\n Defeat for Raducanu ends her hopes on clay for another year, though she will take positives from her opening-round win on Monday, beating Xinyu Wang in her first Roland Garros match since 2022.<\/p>\n Victory over the Chinese helped propel Raducanu back into the top 40 of the WTA Rankings for the first time in over three and a half years, with the Brit currently 37th in the live rankings.<\/p>\n However, her second-round defeat means that she has missed the chance to potentially move further up the rankings \u2013 and boost her Wimbledon hopes.<\/p>\n Had she stunned Swiatek, Raducanu would have moved up two places to world No 35 in the WTA Live Rankings, just below current British No 1 Katie Boulter.<\/p>\n With her clay swing now over, the 22-year-old will look to boost her hopes of a Wimbledon seeding when the grass court season begins.<\/p>\n Raducanu has semi-final points to defend in Nottingham before the seeding cut-off one week before the Championships, meaning it is touch and go as to whether she will be ranked inside the top 32 by then.<\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>:\u00a0\u2018Iconic\u2019: Why you just HAVE to visit Queen\u2019s and Wimbledon in style this summer<\/a><\/p>\n The post Iga Swiatek ends Emma Raducanu\u2019s French Open hopes as stunning Grand Slam streak continues<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek kept her French Open title defence and an impressive Grand Slam streak alive with a convincing win over Emma Raducanu. The world No 5 faced little trouble in a blockbuster second-round contest inside Court Philippe Chatrier on Wednesday, breezing past fellow Grand Slam winner Raducanu 6-1, 6-2. Swiatek\u2019s triumph continues her dominant head-to-head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n