We have known for a long time that Iga Świątek is not in the highest form in the 2025 season. Nevertheless, everyone expects that despite this in their favorite tournament, Grand Slam Roland Garros in Paris, Shelf will show its best face. On Friday, the 24-year-old managed to advance to the fourth round, beating the 60th Romanian ranking Jaqueline Cristian 6: 2, 7: 5 after two completely different sets.
Experts spoke after winning Christmas in the third round of Roland Garros. “Rybakina and Ostapenko can smile”
Shortly after the victory of Świątek, journalists and experts paid attention to the disproportion in the game ¦wi ± tek in both parts.
“Very nice first set and a lot of positives in the game in total during this period. But the latter is already worried, because if it is enough that a tennis player like Cristian will add a bit in strength and speed of play, and Iga already has problems, then Ostapenko or Rybakina can smile under their breath” – wrote the journalist Sebastian Warzecha.
“Surprisingly difficult game. But it's great that Iga Świątek closed it in two sets. I would like to start Christmas now – Ostapenko! ” – wrote Łukasz Jachimiak from Sport.pl.
“The difficult match against the rival, which played boldly and well used the fitness intensity of the match. The first set under control. In the second, nervousness crept a bit, and the percentage of the one hit fell even for a moment below 50 % applause for the end!” – praised the Polish woman Michał Chojecki from “Super Express”.
“Most wins in Roland Garros in a row in women at this age: 24 – Justine Henin and Iga Świątek. Iga will be an independent record holder if she wins the next match” – wrote the tennis journalist Bastien Facultyan, who added that the record of all time is 29 subsequent wins of Chris Evert.
“Iga Świątek survived the very difficult second set (80 minutes) and defeats Jaqueline Cristian 6: 2, 7: 5 on the Suzanne Lenglen court. She is in the best sixteen once again. A great celebration at the end, 24 consecutive wins at Roland Garros” – commented Portuguese journalist Jose Morgado.
“Iga Swiatek in the 4th round of Roland Garros! Romanian Cristian used the position of” Underdoga “and played very boldly and without pressure, which made the second batch very even. Such a crossing for Iga can be useful in the perspective of a Sunday match, unfortunately today the service was deduced today, not only its percentage, but also quality and location despite the fact that the Polish woman won all her service games ” – wrote Michał Dembek from” Sports Sofa “, adding:
“Moving around the court still at a very high level and the most important thing is to control Forehand in key and nervous moments, because it happened that sometimes there were too many errors from this side. Nevertheless, Iga tried to be active on the court and undoubtedly it was felt that she used her experience with the contact result.”
Roland Garros in the fourth round Igę ¦wi ± tek A much more difficult task awaits. The Polish tennis player will face her either with Kazaszka Jelena Rybakina, or with Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, with whom she has not won even once “