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US Open 2022 Women’s Singles Final, Iga Swiatek vs Ons Jabeur Live Updates: World number one Iga Swiatek swept to a 6-2 7-6(5) victory over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in the U.S. Open final on Saturday to clinch her maiden trophy at Flushing Meadows and third Grand Slam crown.
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Poland’s Swiatek fell on her back and covered her face with her hands after prevailing in the tight second-set tiebreak, having sealed the win when fifth seed Jabeur’s shot sailed long. It was twice French Open champion Swiatek’s first Grand Slam title on a hard court and the 21-year-old is the first Polish woman to win the U.S. Open.
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Swiatek's US Open triumph win puts her over 10,000 ranking points for the year, well over the rest of the bunch. She also becomes the first woman since 2016 to win multiple Majors. Generational.
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Tough loss for the Tunisian, whose spirited comeback was foiled. Back-to-back Grand Slam final losses but many positives to take.
Big win for Swiatek at the Open. She was not at her best in many matches but pulled through.
It's her second Grand Slam of the year, and third in her career.
Swiatek 4-2 ahead at the midpoint of the breaker. Can Jabeur hold on?
Jabeur with steely nerves. Saves match point with some huge serves to take it into a breaker.
Jabeur will need a great hold on her nerves again, as she serves to survive and take this set to a tiebreaker.
Nervy hold for Jabeur.
Swiatek survives.
The tables have turned this set. Swiatek saved three break points. Jabeur is neutralising the Pole with some solid shotmaking of her own. Swiatek had to dig very deep here, and now Jabeur will serve to stay in it.
The twists and turns are endless.
Jabeur breaks back. She needed that to get back into it. The duo are producing really high-quality returning performances here.
Swiatek breaks back immediately.
Incredible tennis. She wins the longer baseline exchanges, gets big depth on her groundstrokes, and crunches a couple of huge backhands. So, so good.
Jabeur breaks back!
Clutch play at it's best. Did not need a second chance to get back in it. Needed that to have a chance to get back in it.
Jabeur holds on!
Nervy from the Tunisian, but she saves three break points to pull through.
Swiatek breaks! And she's fired up.
She feels totally dejected, dropping her racquet to the floor after a failed drop shot went short at the net. An unforced error from her on game point derailed her too. She needs to lock in to come back here.
Swiatek picks up where she left off from. Needs some big groundstrokes to save a break point and plenty of initiative from Jabeur from the baseline.
Swiatek wins the first set!
The baseline aggression is working wonders for Swiatek. Jabeur has pulled out some winners herself, but she has had no answers for Swiatek's power.
Jabeur breaks back!
One for the highlight reel. A big forehand urges Swiatek to come to the net, and they exchange a few acrobatic volleys before she puts it away.
A few massive winners from the baseline later, the Tunisian has the break. Will need more of that to cope with Swiatek's power.
The winners are flowing through Swiatek's racquet. And she's painting the lines, but it's do or die, the errors could begin to leak. Jabeur needed big serves to get through.
Swiatek breaks!
Her power is looking hard to control at the moment. Vintage Swiatek.
Despite missing a drive-by volley, big serves help Swiatek serve it out. Jabeur's backhand is firing.
The 2022 US Open women's final kicks off. The best players of the year in the last Major match of the year. Who comes out on top?
Iga Swiatek vying for her second Grand Slam of the year. Ons Jabeur vying for the first of her career. Action coming up soon.
It has been a long time since the final of a women’s Grand Slam was contested by the two best players in the world. The last time two top-5 seeds played the final of a Major was at Wimbledon 2016, and two top-10 players have only played for the title three times since then. So, it’s fitting that the sense of occasion could be heightened by a tactical battle.
Arthur Ashe is ready to witness history tonight.
Australians Storm Sanders and John Peers won the U.S. Open mixed doubles title with a 4-6, 6-4, 10-7 victory over the team of Kirsten Flipkens and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.
Here's looking at how our two finalists stack up against each other
Ons Jabeur was once called the 'Federer of Tunisia' for her graceful movements & positional play. These days, she is called the Minister of Happiness, for spreading hope & joy in Arab girls. Can the trailblazer win her maiden Grand Slam title? Here's a video of her thanking her home country after defeating Garcia in the semis.
A victory would make her the first player since Serena Williams in 2014 to win seven titles in a season. The native of Poland is the first No. 1 seed to reach the final in Flushing Meadows since Williams did it that year.
Name a shot and Iga Swiatek has it. The world No. 1 is particularly brutal off return. This fortnight, the 21-year-old has broken serve a tournament-leading 35 times and has won 50% or more return points in four out of her six rounds thus far. The return rocketing is a tell-tale sign for Swiatek’s success; the top seed is 66-0 across her fledgling career when winning that ratio of 50%-plus of return points. For all the talk of versatility, spin, and craft in the rallies, Jabeur is going to have to find her spot and rhythm on serve immediately.
Will Swiatek win tonight or will Jabeur score one of the biggest upsets of the tournament?
On her day, Swiatek's power can be unmatched, and her baseline aggression and intensity can be hard to cope with, the kind of tennis that was rewarded with a 37-match winning streak and the French Open crown. But Swiatek has not been at her best recently.
If Swiatek needed a wider range of strategy and grit against other opponents, she will need to use a lot of those attributes against the kind of serving form Jabeur has been in. The Tunisian has risen steadily this year, coming off a Wimbledon runner-up finish squandering a one-set lead, and her serve has done a lot of damage this fortnight.
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Here's a special look back at the road these two incredible athletes took to get here.
Jabeur and Swiatek have a level record of 2-2, including their most recent duel in the Rome final that went 6-2, 6-2 in Swiatek’s favor.
“I have manifested it (Grand slam triumph). I know I am going to win the title I always wanted in my life.” It’s the French Open Ons Jabeur is really after, but after a shock first-round defeat there this year, she got close to her dream by reaching the Wimbledon final, and now gets a chance at the US Open. (READ MORE)
Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur demolished Caroline Garcia in straight sets to become the first African woman in history to reach the final of the US Open winning 6-1, 6-3.
Swiatek had to pull off multiple comebacks on Thursday night to get past a very game Aryna Sabalenka. She fought back from a one-set deficit, as well as from a break down in the third set twice, before edging Sabalenka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in a 2-hour, 11-minute semifinal showdown on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the US OPen women's final between Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur. Swiatek will try to win her third Grand Slam title, while Ons Jabeur gets a second straight chance to win her first.