The four-time Roland Garros winner hasn’t lost a match on these courts since June 9th, 2021—or 1,143 days ago.

We’re just a day away from the kick-off of the Paris Olympic Tennis Event, and if the numbers are anything to go by, Iga Swiatek has to be a big favorite for the women’s gold medal.

First of all, the event is being held at Stade Roland Garros, the home of the Roland Garros tournament—which she’s completely dominated this decade, going 32-1 in her last five appearances and winning the title four times in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

She’s on a 21-match winning streak on these courts, the fourth-longest winning streak for a woman in the Open Era.

LONGEST ROLAND GARROS WIN STREAKS (women, Open Era):
29: Chris Evert [1974-1981]
25: Monica Seles [1990-1996]
24: Justine Henin [2005-2010]
21: Iga Swiatek [2022-2024]
20: Steffi Graf [1987-1989]

The world No. 1’s last loss on the terre battue was a quarterfinal defeat to Maria Sakkari on June 9th, 2021—all of 1,143 days ago.

Additionally, she’s on a 19-match winning streak on clay, period, having won the last three tournaments she’s played on the surface at Madrid (6-0), Rome (6-0) and Roland Garros (7-0).

And she’s a tour-leading 21-1 on clay this year, her only loss coming to Elena Rybakina in the semifinals of Stuttgart in April.

WTA CLAY-COURT WIN LEADERS FOR 2024 (tour-level):
21: Iga Swiatek [21-1]
16: Danielle Collins [16-4]
15: Aryna Sabalenka [15-4]
15: Mirra Andreeva [15-4] (playing Iasi final on Friday)
14: Magda Linette [14-6] (playing Prague final on Friday)

Swiatek has won a tour-leading five titles this year—one Grand Slam title at Roland Garros and four WTA 1000s at Doha, Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome.

While Swiatek is the only player on the women’s side with 20 or more wins on clay this year, there are four on the men’s side with that many—Sebastian Baez, Casper Ruud, Alexander Zverev and Luciano Darderi, all of whom will be competing at the Olympics.

But unlike Swiatek, this year’s men’s champion at Roland Garros, Carlos Alcaraz, isn’t in that group—he’s not even in the Top 10 clay-court win leaders for the year. But that’s largely due to injuries, not only an arm injury that kept him out of most of the spring lead-up season to Roland Garros, but also an ankle injury that hampered him during the February clay-court season.

The 21-year-old Spaniard has a 12-3 record on clay this year.

ATP CLAY-COURT WIN LEADERS FOR 2024 (tour-level):
24: Sebastian Baez [24-10]
21: Casper Ruud [21-6]
20: Alexander Zverev [20-5]
20: Luciano Darderi [20-10]
19: Stefanos Tsitsipas [19-5]

The tennis event at the 2024 Paris Olympics is being held on the clay courts of Roland Garros, which is bad news for anyone not named Iga Swiatek. At just 23 years old, Swiatek is already a four-time French Open champion. She most recently triumphed on the terre battue only two months ago, blitzing everyone in her path aside from a second-round thriller against Naomi Osaka.

That’s not to say that Swiatek is an absolute lock to capture gold. A formidable list of challengers includes Osaka, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina, Jasmine Paolini, and reigning Wimbledon champ Barbora Krejcikova.

Here are my best bets for the women’s side in Paris.

Iga Swiatek (-175)

The men’s side is somewhat up for grabs (even though Carlos Alcaraz has won two consecutive Grand Slams), at least relative to the women’s. Olympic gold on the WTA side would be close to toss-up on any other surface, but on the red clay of Roland Garros it’s a borderline slam dunk for Swiatek. The top-ranked Pole does have a difficult draw at the Paris Games, but you still cannot pick against her at this particular setting.

Jasmine Paolini (+2400)

Paolini has been sensational from start to finish in 2024, and what is especially notable is that she has been getting it done on every surface. The fifth-ranked Italian won the WTA 1000 event in Dubai on hard courts and has finished runner-up at each of the last two majors–on the clay of Roland Garros and the grass of Wimbledon. Clay has generally been her favorite surface over the years, so she should be especially confident in returning to Paris. It’s also worth noting that Paolini has pretty much an ideal draw in the much weaker bottom half, so the door at least to the final is wide open and perhaps she could get lucky with someone like Rybakina or Jelena Ostapenko upsetting Swiatek in the top half.

Naomi Osaka (+2200)

One woman and one woman alone came close to taking down Swiatek at this year’s French Open. In fact, mathematically Osaka could not have come any closer to getting the job done. The Japanese star had a match point to upset the world No. 1 only to succumb 7-6(1), 1-6, 7-5. Even though Osaka has not done much in between these two stops at Roland Garros, she can never be discounted on the big stage. After all, she is a four-time major champion–having won both the Australian Open and U.S. Open twice each.

The official post-Wimbledon WTA Rankings has been confirmed and the top five remain unchanged with Iga Swiatek continuing her dominant streak at No 1, but there were some big winners over the fortnight at SW19.

Swiatek’s wait for a first grass-court Grand Slam continues as she was upset in the third round at Wimbledon by Yulia Putintseva, but it didn’t affect her status at No 1 as she maintained a healthy lead at the top.

The Pole started her 112th week at No 1 on Monday – just five weeks shy of Justine Henin in eighth place on the all-time list for most weeks spent at No 1 – and her lead over second-placed Coco Gauff sits at 3,148 points.

The five-time Grand Slam winner is assured of remaining at No 1 until after the US Open.

Gauff missed an opportunity to edge closer after also exiting in the third round while third-placed Aryna Sabalenka lost ground as she didn’t play due to injury, allowing Elena Rybakina to edge slightly closer.

There is a newcomer to the top five with Wimbledon runner-up Jasmine Paolini continuing her stunning late bloom as she followed up her run to the final at Roland Garros with a second Grand Slam finalist trophy after losing against Barbora Krejcikova in the final at the All England Club.

The Italian moves up two places to a career-high No 5.

Former world No 2 Krejcikova returns to the top 10 as she jumped 22 places following her Wimbledon title run while Danielle Collins is also back in the top 10 – sitting at No 9 – after reaching the fourth round in London.

There is a new career-high No 15 for Emma Navarro as she moved up two places after making the quarter-final, but the two biggest losers in the top 20 were last year’s Wimbledon finalists.

Defending champion Marketa Vondrousova slipped 12 places to No 18 after she was stunned in the first round while 2023 runner-up Ons Jabeur is down to No 16 after dropping six places.

Semi-finalist Donna Vekic just missed out on the top 20 as she moved up 16 places to No 21 while last year’s semi-finalist Elina Svitolina slipped from No 21 to No 30.

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Lulu Sun came through qualifying and reached the quarter-final, defeating Emma Raducanu on the way, and her reward is a 70-place surge to a career-high No 53. Her previous best was No 123.

Raducanu is also back in the top 100 for the first time since April 2023 as she climbed 41 places to No 94 after reaching the fourth round.

Some other big names who enjoyed decent jumps are Paula Badosa who is up 28 places to No 65, Caroline Wozniacki is +15 to No 76 while Naomi Osaka just missed the top 100 as she moved up 11 places to No 102.

WTA Rankings Top 20

1. Iga Swiatek Poland – 11,285 points
2. Coco Gauff United States – 8,137
3. Aryna Sabalenka – 7,061
4. Elena Rybakina Kazakhstan – 6,376
5. Jessica Pegula United States – 5,025
6. Jasmine Paolini Italy – 5,518
7. Qinwen Zheng China – 4,055
8. Maria Sakkari Greece – 3,925
9. Danielle Collins United States – 3,702
10. Barbora Krejcikova Czech Republic – 3,573
11. Jelena Ostapenko Latvia – 3,418
12. Daria Kasatkina – 3,283
13. Liudmila Samsonova – 2,950
14. Madison Keys United States – 3,878
15. Emma Navarro United States – 2,729
16. Ons Jabeur Tunisia – 2,631
17. Anna Kalinskaya – 2,550
18. Marketa Vondrousova Czech Republic 2,473
19. Marta Kostyuk Ukraine – 2,240
20. Victoria Azarenka – 2,159

After the favorite, Iga Swiatek´s elimination, two unlikely underdogs stand two matches away from lifting their first Grand Slam Trophy.

The Polish five-time tournament favorite was eliminated two sets to one by the world’s 35th-ranked Yulia Putinseva in the tournament´s third round. The upset shook up the tournament bracket, and while Putinseva was eliminated in the next round by 14th-ranked Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the upset has rocked the Wimbledon predictions of many.

Anyone´s tournament to win

The upset made waves in the tennis world as many had Swiatek slotted as the likely favorite. Putinseva was not the only upset, however, Coco Gauff, who holds second place in the ATP power rankings was eliminated by 17th-ranked Emma Navarro. Most notable among the Cinderella stories, however, are those of Barbora Krejcikova and Donna Vekic.

Krejcikova ranked 31 in ATP´s rankings, and Vekic, ranked 37, are two underdogs that have held on and continued to advance through the rounds. They now find themselves in the semifinals, two games away from lifting Wimbledon´s Women’s Singles Trophy, dubbed the Venus Rosewater Dish.

Two familiar faces in finals

Across the lawn, Vekic will face off against Italian 7th-ranked Jasmine Paolini. For Paolini, she will hope to take home her second title of the year after winning the Dubai Women’s Singles Tennis Championships in February. She has cruised through the competition so far, having won all of her matches in straight sets.

Elena Rybakina will face off against Krejcikova on the other side of the Bracket. Ranked currently 4th in the world, Rybakina has been having a very successful 2024 season, with a 35-7 record in major tournaments. She has also won a collection of silverware this far in the season, lifting trophies at the Brisbane International, Abu Dhabi Open, and the Stuttgart Open.

The semifinal matches will both take place at six p.m. on Thursday, July 11th, with the final taking place on Sunday, July 13th.

Top seed Iga Swiatek reached the third round of the women’s singles with a tenacious straight-set win over Petra Martic on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Croatian Martic pushed the Polish world number one in moments but lost her serve late in both sets in Swiatek’s 6-4 6-3 win.

She also needed a lengthy medical timeout for a back injury in the opening set.

Swiatek’s victory extended her formidable win streak to 21 matches.

The 23-year-old is a five-time Grand Slam winner, although she has struggled on grass in the past, and has never advanced beyond the quarter-finals at SW19.

Swiatek will face Yulia Putintseva in the third round with the Kazakh player upsetting Czech 27th seed Katerina Siniakova 6-0 4-6 6-2 earlier on day four.

Elsewhere in the women’s draw, American fifth seed Jessica Pegula became the highest-ranked casualty at this year’s singles when she was beaten by world number 42 Wang Xinyu.

The Chinese player won 6-4 6-7 (7-9) 6-1 on court three to set up a third-round tie with Britain’s Harriet Dart.

Pegula had looked in formidable form on grass, reaching the final of Eastbourne and winning her first-round tie at Wimbledon in just 49 minutes.

Caroline Garcia, the 23rd seed from France, was also knocked out, losing 6-3 3-6 6-4 to world number 97 Bernarda Pera of the United States.

But plenty of other seeds recorded dominant straight-set wins on a wind-affected day in SW19.

Elena Rybakina, champion in 2022, beat German Laura Siegemund 6-3 3-6 6-3.

The Kazakh player will next face former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the next round.

The Dane, 33, beat Canadian 30th seed Leylah Fernandez 6-3 2-6 7-5.

Ons Jabeur, runner-up at the past two Wimbledons, dispatched American Robin Montgomery 6-1 7-5.

The Tunisian 10th seed will take on 21st seed Elina Svitolina in the third round after the Ukrainian overcame German Jule Niemeier 6-3 6-4.

American 11th seed Danielle Collins beat Hungary’s Dalma Galfi 6-3 6-4 and will take on 20th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia next after the Brazilian benefited from a walkover.

Madison Keys, a quarter-finalist last year’s, beat China’s Wang Yafan 6-2 6-2, while 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko defeated Ukraine’s Daria Snigur 6-3 6-0.

Iga Swiatek and Petra Martic will meet in the second round of Wimbledon. Prediction for the match of these tennis players is made by Dailysports experts.

Iga Swiatek

The Polish tennis player is trying to dominate in women’s tennis, especially powerful she spent the ground part of the season, winning tournaments in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros. Swiatek is on a streak of 20 wins, with few realizing how she can be stopped. Before Wimbledon, the athlete took a break for rest, so she did not play grass tournaments, which is quite risky.

In the first round she managed to defeat Sofia Kenin – 6:3, 6:4, as you can see from the scoreline, it was without a rout. Sventek is deservedly the first racket of the world, and after all she is only 23 years old.

Petra Martic

The Croatian athlete looked very promising in her time, although she did not have a brilliant career. The peak of her achievements was a place in the top 20, now the athlete is 33 years old, now she is only 85th in the world ranking. The tennis player did not have strong tournaments in the current season, even had to endure a series of five defeats.

In the first round, Martic defeated Francesca Jones from the third hundred of the world ranking, and only in three sets – 3:6, 6:1, 6:2. There are doubts that the Croatian can give a fight to the world ranking leader.

Interesting facts about the match and history of head-to-head meetings

• The sportswomen played each other three times, in all cases Sventek won, once the tennis players also played at Wimbledon, then the Polish won 6:2, 7:5.
• Swiatek has 46 wins in 50 games this season.
• Martic has won just 11 meetings out of 25 matches this year.

Iga Swiatek vs Petra Martic Prediction

The Polish tennis player is given symbolic odds, Iga is really in brilliant form. But Martic is definitely not able to give a fight to the first racket of the world. I bet on the victory of Swiatek with a -6.5 games.