PARIS: Iga Swiatek went down on her haunches and wept in disbelief. It was the Pole's fourth Grand Slam title, her third French Open. At the other end, Karolina Muchova bit back her tears and made it to the middle to congratulate the champion. A title match with a scoreline and no losers.
The 2 hours and 46-minute battle -of big strikes and stirring sense of court, fierce and pitched -finished on a double-fault. An anomaly. But those were the stakes and the World No. 1's reaction was to the match and not the moment.
