World No. 1 Iga Swiatek won her third French Open title in four years on Saturday, defeating Karolina Muchova in three sets, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

Swiatek now owns four Grand Slam titles: three from the French Open (2020, 2022, 2023), plus last year’s U.S. Open. The 22-year-old tennis star from Poland is the youngest woman to own four Grand Slam trophies since a 20-year-old Serena Williams accomplished the feat at the 2002 U.S. Open.

After winning the first set handily, Swiatek went up 3-0 in the second — but the unseeded Muchova fought back and scored a few truly remarkable points, including this one:

Despite Swiatek’s previous experience hoisting the French Open trophy, this year’s celebration came with a surprise when the lid of the cup toppled off mid-celebration.

Wednesday’s French Open lineup featured upsets and rematches, as World No. 1 Iga Swiatek and No. 6 Coco Gauff met in the French Open for the first time since last year’s final.

Swiatek beat Gauff in straight sets once again, this time taking a 6-4, 6-2 win.

“I feel pretty satisfied with my game, I’m happy I was able to make it in two sets,” Swiatek told the Tennis Channel afterwards. “In the first set, in important moments, I was the one that was more solid. It wasn’t easy, especially with the wind today, but I’m happy I’m into the semifinal.”

The Polish star has won 14 straight sets against Gauff and owns a 7-0 career record in matches against the American teenager. Swiatek has also won 12 straight matches on the clay courts at Roland Garros, elevating her career win-loss record at the tournament to 26-2.

With the win, Swiatek advances to her third French Open semifinal. Each time she’s reached the semifinal previously at Roland Garros, she’s won the title.

But the three-time major champion will face a tough test Thursday in Beatriz Haddad Maia, who upset Ons Jabeur in three sets on Wednesday to become the first Brazilian woman since 1968 to reach a Grand Slam semifinal. In their only previous meeting last summer, Haddad Maia upset Swiatek on the hard courts of Toronto.

When Coco Gauff faced off against 16-year-old Mirra Andreeva of Russia during the third round of the 2023 French Open on Saturday, it marked the first time Gauff, 19, played a Grand Slam singles match against a player younger than herself.

Gauff, the runner-up at last year’s French Open, lost the first set to Andreeva, but rallied back in the next two sets, ultimately winning the match 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 6-1 to advance to the fourth round, where she’ll face Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.

But while much of the media ahead of the match focused on age, that topic wasn’t on Gauff’s mind when she stepped onto the court.

“I was just thinking about playing the opponent,” she said. “To be honest, you don’t really think about (age) as an athlete.”

Asked after if she thinks the media focuses too much on that topic, Gauff smiled.

“I’m gonna be honest: Yes. … Age is important to mention sometimes but, as a player and going through it, yes, it gets a little bit annoying. Because I feel like I’m the type of person, I don’t need to be praised because of my age or anything. I prefer just to be praised because of my game, not because of things I’m doing at whatever age.”

Gauff added that she was baffled the other day when she saw a stat about how she had the most bagels (sets that end 6-0) of any teenager on tour.

“I feel like some of these stats, I don’t know, y’all be finding the smallest details,” she said. “I’m like who keeps track of this stuff?”

Even if Gauff doesn’t put much stock in age, she knows experience plays a role. She credits her years on the tour with helping her learn to control her body language, especially in moments of frustration.

“I didn’t realize how much my body language showed until I started watching the film of me,” Gauff explained. “I’m like, yeah, if I was the other side looking at me, I’d be like, ‘Yeah, this girl is down.'”

At moments during Saturday’s match, Andreeva appeared clearly frustrated, smashing a racket during the first set and later hitting a ball into the crowd. Asked by a reporter about her opponent’s “teenage behavior,” Gauff pushed back.

“It’s just being an athlete and being frustrated, to be honest. People do it at all ages, so I’m not gonna blame it on her age,” she said, noting that smashing a racquets is normal for athletes.

“I mean, you shouldn’t do it, but, you know, it’s part of growing up and part of life. So I’m not gonna sit here and berate her for it. I hope you guys don’t either.”

French Open organizers are standing by their “pragmatic” approach in how they dealt with four-time major champion Naomi Osaka during the tournament.

They detailed on Sunday how they tried to engage with Osaka several times before she decided to withdraw from the tournament.

“What we did all together with the Slams, we had to do it,” French tennis federation president Gilles Moretton said at a news conference on the final day of the tournament. “We did the right choice, even if you feel like we shouldn’t say anything … regarding Naomi.”

Osaka withdrew from Roland Garros after she was fined $15,000 for skipping news conferences after her first-round victory. She was threatened by all four Grand Slam tournaments with further consequences if she continued to avoid the media.

Amelie Oudea-Castera, the French tennis federation director general said organizers had written to Osaka privately before the four Grand Slam tournaments publicly fined her and warned of possible additional punishment. 

Oudea-Castera said that the four tournaments were simply reminding Osaka of the rules.

“On the $15,000 fine, you noticed we did not want to put that fine at the maximum,” Oudea-Castera said. “On purpose, we only wanted to be at 15, because we wanted to send a message that we wouldn’t go to a default right away. We wanted to have a progressive escalation should she continue not to commit to her obligations.”

She also acknowledged that tennis officials “can do better” in dealing with players’ mental health issues.

Barbora Krejčíková has swept the French Open.

One day after capturing the singles title, Krejčíková and her partner Kateřina Siniaková defeated Iga Świątek and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4, 6-2 to lift the doubles trophy at Roland-Garros.

The 25-year-old Czech star is the first woman since Mary Pierce in 2000 to win both the singles and doubles title at the French Open.

Sunday’s championship marks Krejčíková and Siniakovás’ third Grand Slam title. The Czech duo previously won at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon in 2018.

Unseeded Barbora Krejčíková defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 Saturday morning to capture her first major title. The tournament was only Krejčíková’s fifth Grand Slam appearance.

Saturday’s two-hour final was a back-and-forth affair, with Krejčíková holding serve in the decisive third set to secure the championship. The 25-year-old won 55 percent of the points off her first serve to Pavlyuchenkova’s 49 percent.

Krejčíková will add her French Open singles title to her two Grand Slam doubles championships.

Still in contention for the doubles title at Roland-Garros, Krejčíková will attempt to become the first woman since Mary Pierce in 2000 to capture the French Open singles and doubles championship in the same year.

Krejčíková and partner Kateřina Siniaková will take on Iga Świątek and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the doubles final Sunday at 5:30 a.m. EST.

Barbora Krejčíková is having a good time in France.

After reaching the singles final at Roland Garros by defeating 17th ranked Maria Sakkari, the world No. 33 also reached the doubles final with partner Katerina Siniakova. The two defeated Magda Linette and Bernarda Pera 6-1, 6-2 to reach the final where they’ll face off against Iga Świątek and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

The last person to win both a doubles and singles title was Serena Williams at Wimbledon in 2016. There, she teamed up with sister Venus to win the doubles title and defeated Angelique Kerber in straight sets to defend her title.

But before facing off in doubles, Krejčíková will go up against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for the singles title at 9 a.m. ET.

The defending French Open champion is out in the quarterfinals at Roland-Garros.

No.17 Maria Sakkari defeated reigning titleholder Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-4 to secure a spot in her first-ever Grand Slam semifinal. Sakkari snapped Swiatek’s 11-match win streak at the French Open in commanding fashion, winning 83 percent of the points off her first serve.

Sakkari is the first Greek woman to reach a Grand Slam semifinal. Following the match, Sakkari described the moment as “a dream come true.”

On Thursday, Sakkari will face off against Barbora Krejcikova in the French Open semifinal.

Coco Gauff is on a roll.

The 17-year-old beat Ons Jabeur on Monday 6-3, 6-1, losing only nine points on her serve. She was also effective at the net, winning 13 of 17 points when she came forward. 

With the win, Gauff advanced to her first appearance in a Grand Slam quarterfinal.

“I feel like this has been the most consistent tennis I have played at this level,” Gauff said. “Hopefully I can keep that going.”

Next up Gauff will face Barbora Krejcikova, who will also be playing her first quarterfinal at a major. Krejcikova beat 2018 French runner-up Sloane Stephens in a blowout, winning in straight sets 6-2, 6-0.

During her post-match press conference at the French Open, Victoria Azarenka criticized the tournament’s dedication to gender equality.

When asked about the lack of women’s matches in the night session lineup, Azarenka expressed her disappointment. Only one of the seven French Open night matches featured the women’s draw.

“What concerns me is when somebody from French Federation is continually trying to say there is equality and only pointing out to prize money, which is true,” said the former world No.1, adding that there is more to the equation than prize money.

Azarenka pointed out that this year’s night schedule is part of a broader pattern of inequality from the French Federation.

“I think there are enough examples over the years where we have heard remarks towards women, where we’ve seen two women’s semifinal matches playing on the outside courts,” Azarenka said of the Grand Slam organizers.

In response, tournament director Guy Forget said that the night schedule was challenging to plan and that timing was a factor in his decision not to hold two matches a night on the center court.

“We want the fans to be happy,” he said.

Following her 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 loss to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Azarenka had blanket criticism for the Grand Slam, which she said had nothing to do with her defeat.

“It’s just honestly a bit frustrating every time you’re trying to deal with the organization here,” she said.

Azarenka’s comments come after the tournament drew criticism for its handling of Naomi Osaka’s decision not to participate in her press duties at Roland-Garros and her subsequent withdrawal from the Grand Slam.