There was a gesture of relief and loud applause. This Thursday, on the Philippe-Chatrier, it took 42 minutes to remember that Iga Swiatek shared the court with Alison Riske, when the latter scored her first game of the match, in the heart of the second set. Because the Pole does not agree, precisely: in the second round, the world number one inflicted a severe correction on the American, swept away in two sets of rare violence (6-0, 6-2) and barely a hour of play.
Where to start? By this first set, flown over and without doubt where she will have put the American to the torture, lugged to the four corners of the court and spectator of a carnage where she will never have had her say. The sequel was hardly more livable. But when the Pole loosened, barely the embrace, Riske ventured to finally win her first game. Before doubling her nest egg a few minutes later, spared by the queen of the circuit, a little more clumsy in her slaps addressed .
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