Iga Swiatek wins 2022 US Open women's singles title

Poland's Iga Swiatek has again proved why she is the world's best female tennis player.
She defeated Tunisian Ons Jabuer in straight sets to claim her second grand slam title this year.

Al Jazeera's Andy Richardson has the details.

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Entering Saturday’s women’s singles final in Flushing, Iga Swiatek had won her last nine finals and swept through her last nine meetings against Top 10 players. With those awe-inspiring numbers in her wake, how could she not be the overwhelming favorite to win a third major singles title against fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur?

And yet, there was an air of the underdog apparent as the 21-year-old Polish phenom sauntered into Arthur Ashe Stadium to take part in her first US Open final. The Pole’s play through six matches in Queens had been buoyed by determination; it was gritty and gradually improving—but far from lights-out.

“I'm trying not to get my expectations too high because I know anything can happen,” Swiatek warned, earlier in the tournament, as a narrative took hold: perhaps New York was too big a challenge for the clay-loving Warsaw native.

Well-documented struggles on the North American hard courts had cast a shadow of doubt over the world No.1 this summer, and she entered New York almost as an afterthought.

It wasn’t until she ripped through the first set of the final against Jabeur, with 23,859 fans in Ashe looking on in awe, that Swiatek started to resemble the juggernaut that had reeled off a 37-match winning streak and rocked up to claim her second Roland Garros in Paris this spring.

From afterthought to afterburners, Swiatek was rocketing to another Grand Slam title after several weeks of stop-and-go traffic.