{"id":150035,"date":"2025-06-01T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150035\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:51:10","slug":"iga-swiatek-joins-rafael-nadal-in-exclusive-five-player-club-by-continuing-remarkable-roland-garros-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150035\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek joins Rafael Nadal in exclusive five-player club by continuing remarkable Roland Garros streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iga Swiatek continues to prove why she is the Queen of the Clay. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The reigning champion fought from a set and a break down against Elena Rybakina to reach the French Open<\/a> quarter-finals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"Swiatek<\/a><\/p>\n

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Swiatek roared as she kept her Roland Garros streak aliveCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

After losing eight of the first nine games in the match, Swiatek<\/a>‘s long winning streak at Roland Garros looked to be ending. <\/p>\n

But she incredibly pulled off a comeback and roared on the court as she secured a 1-6 6-3 7-5 victory to maintain her incredible run. <\/p>\n

The women’s World No.5 has won four of the last five French Opens, and she has now reached six consecutive quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Swiatek is the first player to do that since Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, who reached the quarters every year from 1991 to 2000.<\/p>\n

And her remarkable form on the clay has seen her now join an exclusive group of tennis superstars.<\/p>\n

Swiatek is only the fifth player in the Open Era to win 25+ consecutive singles matches at Roland Garros. <\/p>\n

She has equalled female tennis icon Monica Seles on 25 wins in a row, while sitting three behind Bjorn Borg, who has 28.<\/p>\n

The women’s record is held by Chris Evert on 29, but sitting 10 clear of her is the best player ever on clay: Rafael Nadal<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Being part of a group with sporting great Nadal, who was honoured before this year’s tournament<\/a>, shows just how good the Pole is.<\/p>\n

And she’s now just three more wins away from another Grand Slam title in Paris to add to her four French Open victories.<\/p>\n

\"Swiatek<\/a><\/p>\n

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Swiatek has equalled tennis legend Seles’ 25-match win streakCredit: AFP\"She<\/a><\/p>\n

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She has also now joined King of the Clay Nadal in an exclusive groupCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Speaking after her win over Rybakina, Swiatek compared playing against her opponent to the men’s World No.1.<\/p>\n

She told TNT Sports: “Well, it was tough. First set, I felt like I was playing against Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“She [Rybakina] really pushed me. I needed to do something to get back into the game – with her playing like that I didn’t have a lot of hope.<\/p>\n

“At the end, I was able to play my game, and I am super happy.” <\/p>\n

On her performance, she added: “I wouldn’t say perfect. I don’t think I have double-faulted three times in one game. It was not easy. <\/p>\n

“We played pretty amazing. It is tough to play here, and it means a lot to win this match and I am through.”<\/p>\n

\"Swiatek<\/a><\/p>\n

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Swiatek is now ready for her sixth straight French Open quarter-finalCredit: AFP<\/p>\n

Swiatek will face Ukrainian Elina Svitolina in the French Open quarter-finals as she looks to extend her streak further. <\/p>\n

Svitolina beat No.4 seed Jasmine Paolini after saving three match points to book her spot in the last eight.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to that challenge, Swiatek continued: “Elina Svitolina as you can see today, she’s a great fighter. <\/p>\n

“She plays every point like it means life or death. We played a great match in Miami this year.<\/p>\n

“I’ll focus on myself and I’ll be ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek continues to prove why she is the Queen of the Clay. The reigning champion fought from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[17062,61159,64157,5066,23810,64154,64159,64155,64158,64156,4296,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-150035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bjorn-borg","9":"tag-chris-evert","10":"tag-elene-rybakina","11":"tag-french-open","12":"tag-iga-swiatek","13":"tag-iga-swiatek-french-open","14":"tag-iga-swiatek-french-open-record","15":"tag-iga-swiatek-roland-garros","16":"tag-iga-swiatek-roland-garros-record","17":"tag-monica-seles","18":"tag-rafael-nadal","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tennis","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609382033907623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}