There aren’t a lot of firsts left for Iga Swiatek to achieve, but she ticked yet another box at the Mutua Madrid Open on Saturday. With a nail-biting 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7) championship victory over Aryna Sabalenka, in which she fought off three match points, Swiatek won the WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career. Madrid was the only big clay-court event missing from her resume—she’s already won Roland Garros three times, the WTA 1000 in Rome twice and the WTA 500 in Stuttgart twice. But... Read this story
