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Iga Swiatek and Sofia Kenin in the final

Whe so many people usually wear headphones when she marches onto the square. And the music she’s been listening to these days comes from Guns n ‘Roses. “Welcome to the Jungle” with the hearty guitar riff awakens the spirits and otherwise continues quite crisply, exactly the right thing for Iga Swiatek. The 19-year-old Polish knows what she wants and how to get it, and no one has been able to resist the beat of her beats in Paris these days. In none of her matches did she lose more than five games, and she confirmed everyone who saw her as promises for the future of women’s tennis.

Her opponent in the game for the title this Saturday (3 p.m. at Eurosport) at Stade Roland Garros is two and a half years older, surprisingly won the Australian Open in January and is driven by a defiant will that, when converted into electricity, could illuminate a small town . The Moscow-born American Sofia Kenin, known as Sonya, took a little longer to win, but didn’t make a set either. Everything that has been seen so far at the autumn tournament in Paris points to an exciting, catchy finale, and it can be interpreted as a new edition of the evidence that the young wild ones really arrived.

The series began with Naomi Osaka’s first win in the first final, then 18, at the 2018 US Open. It continued with the Japanese woman’s second title a few months later in Melbourne, followed by Ashleigh Barty’s victory in the first final in Paris 2019 and the first of 19-year-old Canadian Bianca Andreescu 13 months ago at the US Open in New York. Then came Kenin and a few weeks ago in New York again Osaka. They all hesitated and did not hesitate at the great opportunity, even when faced with an icon like Serena Williams.

Andreescu has been injured for a longer period and was absent from Paris, as was Osaka. In Poland the devil broke loose in the face of Swiatek’s successes, eight years after Agnieszka Radwanska appeared in the Wimbledon final. Radwanska crept across the square on fine, quiet feet, Iga Swiatek definitely comes from the Guns n ‘Roses department.

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