The French Open women’s singles final is all set to go at Roland Garros in Paris this Saturday, June 4th with Iga Swiatek of Poland taking on Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff of America.
The 21-year-old Swiatek is the tournament’s top-seeded female and also entered the event as the top-ranked women’s tennis player in the world. She’s been quite successful at the French Open recently as she took the title home with her in 2020 and she’s currently riding a 34-match winning streak. Venus Williams owns the women’s consecutive match run at 35 straight, which she set in 2000, so Swiatek should definitely be motivated for Saturday’s showdown.
The 18-year-old Gauff is definitely no pushover though as she didn’t drop a set while throughout the tournament en route to her very first Grand Slam final. Gauff is attempting to become the first American woman to win the French open since Serena Williams pulled off the feat in 2015 and the second American female to capture a major tennis tournament since 2018.
In the past, Gauff, who is ranked 23rd in the world, made it to the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2019 as a 15-year-old as well as reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in 2020 and the fourth round again at Wimbledon last year.
Understandably, Swiatek enters the final clash as the favorite due to her current winning streak, experience and world ranking. She beat Daria Kasatkina in the semifinals to to guarantee her second appearance in the French Open final in past three years. She downed Sofia Kenin in the final to win the crown in 2020 and also won every set in the event that year. She lost just one set this time around, which was to Qinwen Zhang in the fourth round.
Swiatek and Gauff have squared off against each other just twice before with the Polish star winning both times, once earlier this year in Miami, Florida as well as in Rome, Italy on clay last year. In addition, she didn’t lose a set to Gauff in those two matches.
Gauff beat Sloane Stephens, Kaia Kanepi and Elise Mertens on her way to this year’s semifinals and then took a straight-set victory over Martina Trevisan to reach the final. She reached quarterfinal stage of last year’s French Open when she became the youngest woman to reach the final eight in over 10 years.
Also, Gauff is now the youngest female to reach a Grand Slam final since a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova achieved the feat in 2004. She’s also the youngest American female to go this far in a Grand Slam event since Serena Williams did it at the 1999 US Open at the age of 17. When Sharapova and Williams won their first Grand Slam finals they were teenagers and just happened to beat the top seed of the tournament, so it has been done before.
Beating Swiatek is going to be a tough task though as she blazed through the Miami Open two months ago without losing a set and dropped just one set at the recent Stuttgart Open. It’s not an impossible feat however, as Swiatek lost three matches earlier this year. She was beaten by Ashleigh Barty while preparing for the Australian Open, then fell to Danielle Collins in semifinals of the Australian Open and also dropped a match in February to Jelena Ostapenko in Dubai.
The bet365 oddsmakers currently list Iga Swiatek as the favorite to take the women’s single title at the French Open at -650 with Cori Gauff at +500.
There are several other bets to make on the women’s final at bet365 with some of the most popular being total games, set betting, total sets, first-set score, first-set winner, total aces, most aces, and double fault totals.