Polish teenager
Iga Swiatek crushed Czech ninth seed
Karolina Pliskova 6-0, 6-0 to win the
Italian Open on Sunday.
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The 19-year-old reigning French Open champion took just 45
minutes to dispatch the 2019 Rome winner two weeks before she opens her title
defence in Roland Garros.
Swiatek, ranked 15, claimed her third WTA title having
followed her Roland Garros success with a win in Adelaide in January.
“I’m overwhelmed, at the beginning of this tournament I
would not have dreamed of winning it,” said an emotional Swiatek.
Swiatek swept through the first set in just 20 minutes,
allowing Pliskova four points, dropping just 13 in total throughout the match.
Pliskova tried to fight back in the third game of the second
set, holding a double break to win the third game, but the Polish player
ruthlessly snuffed out any return.
“I will just quickly forget about today,” said Pliskova, the
world number nine, who was playing in her third consecutive Rome final.
The former world number one retired injured in last year’s
final while trailing 6–0, 2–1 to Romania’s Simona Halep.
“It’s definitely not the best day in the tournament for me,
but congratulations she played very well.
“I’ve had some great matches here, in the past I did well.”
Ninth seed Pliskova was the only top 10 player left in the
women’s tournament.
Halep, the third seed, retired with a calf injury. World
number one Ashleigh Barty withdrew with a right hand problem, as a precaution
before the French Open.
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