The Pole Iga Swiatek had been unbeaten for 37 games in a row, breaking an old record set by Martina Hingis in 1997. This great series has now ended in London.
Iga Swiatek can still lose. The Polish world number one lost in the third round of Wimbledon to the French Alizé Corent, who deservedly lost 4: 6 and 2: 6 – and thus missed the entry into the fourth round.
As in her first two rounds, the 21-year-old world number one made far too many simple mistakes and had to admit defeat to the snappy Frenchwoman. It was her first defeat against a French woman and the first since February, when she lost to Jelena Ostapenko.
Swiatek won six titles in a row
This also ends a fabulous series of 37 unbeaten matches in a row for the reigning French Open winner from 2022. In addition, since her first Grand Slam success at the French Open in 2020, she had always reached at least the round of 16 in every Grand Slam. This year, the Pole had won an unbelievable six titles in a row with Paris, Rome, Stuttgart, Miami, Indian Wells and Qatar – but on hard court and sand and not the unloved grass.
In her first two rounds against “Lucky Loser” Lesley Pattaminama Kerkhove (Netherlands) and the Croatian Jana Fett, you could already tell that the 21-year-old native of Warsaw doesn’t feel at all comfortable on the pitch in London. The passionate clay court player prevailed in both matches, but made a number of unforced errors and already benefited more from the mistakes of her opponents than from her own strength.