Iga Swiatek joins Serena Williams and other legends with two stellar achievements at US Open

IG stic achieved two impressive Feats that highlight her immense success and consistency with her opening round victory at the 2024 US Open the world number one earned a hardfought 6 to4 7 to6 win against world number 104 Camila rakova on Arthur Ash Stadium to begin her quest to win a second US Open title swch was broken when serving for the match at 5 to3 in the second set end one five straight points after trailing 3 to six in the tiebreak saving three set points in the process to Prevail the Polish star is seeking her sixth Grand Slam title having won the French Open in four of the Last 5 Years and the US Open in 2022 the beginning good but then I got a little bit tight and my opponent used that so I was trying to get back to my game swch said in a postmatch interview I'm pretty sure that day by day I'm going to get more rhythm with her opening round Triumph at Flushing Meadows Stig became the fifth youngest woman in the open era to win 20 consecutive Grand Slam firstr matches at 23 years and 88 days swk started the streak at the 2019 Us open after suffering the only opening round exit in her major career at the 2019 Wimbledon championships Maria Sharapova is the youngest player to win 20 straight opening round women's singles Grand Slam opening round round encounters having achieved this at the age of 21 years and 37 Days Caroline Waki Lindsay Davenport and Gabriella sabatini 22 years 247 days are the only other woman to accomplished this at a younger age than swch that I in Edition suk's win was her 80th Grand Slam victory in her 97th match and only two tennis Legends have reached this milestone in fewer matches this century Serena Williams earned 80 wins from her first 93 major singles matches while Venus Williams achieved this in 94 matches Suk will face world number 217 Ina shibara a 26-year-old Japanese qualifier in the second round on Thursday

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