Even in Mexico, there are some certainties. Taxes, death… and Iga Swiatek’s bubbles. For the third time this week and the 16th of the season, the Pole inflicted a blank set on her opponent, in this case the American Jessica Pegula, swept away in the final of the Cancun Masters in two sets and 59 minutes of play (6-1, 6-0). Swiatek also regains, on the gong, her place as world number one at the expense of Aryna Sabalenka.
This is undoubtedly not a coincidence and we could well see it as a symbol. In a year 2023 where the number of his “bagels” (6-0) was talked about from spring to fall, we will remember that it was with a resounding 6-0 that Iga Siwatek ended his season. Resounding because it allowed him to win the first Masters of his career (in three participations in 2021, 2022 and therefore 2023), that he intervened in the final of one of the toughest tournaments of the season, and that he It took a huge dose of motivation to push to the end and never let up in a one-sided finale.
Swiatek new world number one
The final score says that Pegula scored a game in the first set. Further analysis recalls that she had equalized at 1-1 on a well-controlled service game. Yes, the American then conceded… eleven consecutive games. Because opposite, the Pole put too much pressure on her, too often and never gave up an ounce of ground. Even the only break point obtained by the 5th player in the world, in the final game of the match, did not allow her to avoid the bubble. There was really nothing to do against this Iga.
Double Grand Slam winner in 2022, Swiatek corrects, a little, the anomaly of 2023 which only saw her triumph “at” Roland-Garros just before the summer. Exiting in the eighth in Australia then in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the US Open, she nevertheless won the 6th title of her season, the 17th in total. Above all, while she had been ejected from the world number one place by Aryna Sabalenka, her great rival, after the US Open, Iga Swiatek regained her property thanks to this victory at the Masters. From April 2022 to September 2023, she had accumulated 75 weeks at the top of women’s tennis. History will record that the reign of Iga II began in Cancun.