Iga Sviatek (World No. 1) and Karolina Muhova (43 WTA) will meet on Saturday in the women’s grand final at Roland Garros 2023. Over time, they have only played once and I won because I was an athlete from the Czech Republic.

The final between Iga Sviatek and Karolina Mukhova will start at 16:00, it will be LiveBLOG on HotNews.ro and live on Eurosport 1.

Know:

• Iga and Karolina have met once in their careers: in 2019 in Prague, and she defeated the player from the Czech Republic with a score of 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

• If he wins at Roland Garros 2023, Iga Sviatek will reach four Grand Slam titles won. In this performance, she will be matched with Hana Mandlikova, Aranta Sanchez Vicario, Kim Clijsters, Naomi Osaka (Open Era), Elizabeth Moore, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Shirley Fry.

• The tennis school in the Czech Republic is one of the best in the history of tennis, having over time produced great champions such as Martina Navratilova, Ivan Lendl, Jan Kodes, Jaroslav Drobny, Petr Korda, Hedwig Rosenbaumova, Helena Sukova, Jana Novotna, Hana Mandlikova, Karel Kozeluch and Petra Kvitova.

Who is Iga Svyatek?

In his career, he has 241 wins and 61 losses. He collected $16,854,913 in tennis prizes alone. It climbed to the top spot on April 4, 2022. He won two tournaments this year: Doha and Stuttgart.

He is 21 years old, he is the leader of the world singles ranking.

Career Tournaments Won (13–3 Grand Slams)

2023 – Doha, Stuttgart

2022 – Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, Rome, Roland Garros, US Open, San Diego

2021 – Adelaide, Rome

2020 – Roland Garros.

Lost final

2023 – Dubai, Madrid

2022 – Ostrava

2019 – Lugano

Iga Svyatek, an incredible journey to Roland Garros 2023

Round I: 6-4, 6-0 against Kristina Bushka (70 WTA).

Second round: 6-4, 6-0 against Claire Liu (102 WTA)

Round III: 6-0, 6-0 vs Xinyu Wang (80 WTA)

Best: 5-1 (elimination) against Lesia Tsurenko (66 WTA)

Quarters: 6-4, 6-2 against Coco Hauf (6 WTA)

Semifinals: 6-2, 7-6(7) against Beatrice Haddad Maia (14 WTA)

Who is Karolina Mukhova?

He has 260 wins and 131 losses in his career. He collected $4,205,445 in tennis prizes alone. Career best: 19 May 17, 2021.

She hasn’t won a single tournament this season and has only won one event in her entire career: WTA Seoul in 2019.

He played one more final in the tournament: Prague, 2019. He is 26 years old and is currently ranked 43rd in the world singles rankings.

Karolina Muhova’s best Grand Slam results: Australian Open (2021) and Roland Garros (2023) semi-finals, Wimbledon quarter-finals (2019, 2021) and US Open round of 16 (2020).

Karolina Mukhova, completed at Roland Garros 2023

First round: 7-6(5), 7-5 with Maria Sakkari

Second round: 6-3, 0-6, 6-3 with Nadia Podoroska

III round: 6-3, 6-2 with Iryna Begu

Optimi: 6-4, 6-3 with Elina Avanesyan

Quarters: 7-5, 6-2 with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Semifinals: 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 7-5 with Aryna Sabalenko.