World No. 1 Iga Swiatek gave credit to the crowd at Court Philippe-Chatrier court following her dominant French Open semifinal win.
On Thursday, first-seeded Swiatek crushed 20th-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-2 6-1 to progress into her second French Open final.
The crowd stood behind Swiatek and the Pole responded accordingly as she dominated Kasatkina to reach the final.
Swiatek crushed Kasatkina and after the match said it’s easier to play well when you have a strong support.
“It is easier to play matches with this kind of support,” Swiatek said, per Eurosport. “I’ve had it in every place I’ve played this year. It still surprises me as when I first started right after my first year was Covid and I wasn’t sure how many Polish people would come, so it still surprises me.”
Swiatek wins her 34th consecutive match
Swiatek hasn’t lost since mid-February and she has now won her last 34 matches.
Swiatek gets asked about her stunning winning streak after every win and she insists her recent dominance hasn’t changed the way she approaches her matches.
“I try to treat every match the same way,” Swiatek said. “If I realise it is one of the biggest matches of the season it stresses me out, so I try to just focus on a task and I listen to music.”
Swiatek earned the first break of the match in the second game but Kasatkina broke back in the third game.
After the first four games, the two players were tied at two games apiece.
Kasatkina managed to recover from an early first set but Swiatek kept pressing as the Pole broke the Russian in the sixth and eighth games to win the opener.
After losing the last four games of the first set and the opening game of the second set, Kasatkina served out the second game to tie the second set to one game apiece.
That was all from Kasatkina as Swiatek claimed back-to-back breaks in the fourth and sixth games – won five games in a row and impressively earn a straight-set victory.
Swiatek, the 2020 French Open champion, is now a win away from winning her second Grand Slam title.