Tennis
Schwentek asked her opponent not to cry after the Roland Garros final, but ended up bursting into tears herself
Iga Schwentek and Corey Gauff / Photo: © REUTERS / Benoit Tessier
The 2022 Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek tried to calm her rival in the final, 18-year-old Corey Gauff, after the match, but in the end she herself could not hold back her tears.
Emotions swept over the 21-year-old tennis player at the trophy ceremony.
– I just asked Koko not to cry, but what am I doing now? Šwiętek said in tears. “Corey, when I was your age, I spent the first year on tour and had no idea what I was doing,” quotes the polka WTA Insider.
Šwiętek won 6-1, 6-3 and won the Roland Garros for the second time in her career. The tennis player has a winning streak of 35 matches. She is the first racket of the world.
Source: Sportbox
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