For the third year running, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff will butt heads in the latter stages of the French Open , this time in Thursday's tantalising semi-final encounter on Court Philippe-Chatrier. The reigning champion made incredibly light work of Marketa Vondrousova in the last eight, while Gauff produced a breathtaking fightback to eliminate Ons Jabeur . © Reuters Not even the Wimbledon holder was immune from the famed Swiatek bagel, as the inextinguishable Pole achieved her third-straight 6-0 set at Roland-Garros in their quarter-final battle, having taken just 40 minutes to see off Anastasia Potapova in her last-16 whitewash.
Vondrousova did eventually get on the board at the start of the second set, but the Czech had only delayed the inevitable against the laser-focused Swiatek, who ran out a 6-0 6-2 victor with one hour and two minutes on the clock to sail into the semi-finals. Smashing 25 winners past her towering foe - 21 of which came on the forehand side - and beating away the only break point that Vondrousova managed to fashion, Swiatek more than enhanced her credentials as a potential four-time Roland-Garros champion as she chases a 2022, 2023 and 2024 three-peat. Furthermore, the world number one has just a solitary defeat on her record from her previous five Grand Slam semi-final contests - going down to Danielle Collins at the 2022 Australian Open - and she has never lost on clay at this stage of any major or WTA 1000 Masters competition.
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