Why is there room at the top for only one women’s sport?
We head now into the French Open’s final weekend, a showcase for two suspenseful singles finals. The women’s championship match in Paris will feature two players poised to engage in a long fight for women’s tennis supremacy.
Iga Swiatek, a 21-year-old Polish champion who won this tournament in 2020, plays a form of clean, cutthroat tennis that has her on the cusp of winning 35 straight matches.
Standing in her way will be the 18-year-old American Coco Gauff, the effervescent prodigy who may, in fact, be too established to be considered a prodigy any more. Making the final of a major tournament, making it boldly and unapologetically, stamps Gauff as a lasting and considerable force.
Gauff and Swiatek make their bids for history on Saturday. In the men’s final on Sunday, Rafael Nadal will seek his 14th French Open singles championship in a matchup against No. 8 seed Casper Ruud, the first Norwegian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final.
