Swiatek Destroys Rybakina to Win in Toronto 2026 | Tennis News

All right, so we've just seen Iga Swiatek lift the Canadian Open trophy and what a win over Elena Rybakina, somebody who who she's been losing to in the last couple of matches, but let's go and see how this match went because it was a real clinic. All right, so just over an hour, an hour and 15 minutes, 6-2 6-3, very impressive by Swiatek. Um a lot of errors coming from Rybakina, she's been hitting a lot of errors this week, so you know, that's nothing no surprise. She also hit four double faults, Rybakina, but Swiatek's serving was absolutely incredible. You can see there, 76% of first serve points, 80% of first serves in for Swiatek, very, very high. Uh didn't get either. She saved the two break points and they were both in the same game in the middle of the first set. And she also broke broke Rybakina four times, very, very impressive. All right, so first game of the match, Swiatek breaks and that really set the tone. There was a couple of double faults in that first game from Rybakina, but really set the tone. Swiatek then ends up holding and getting to two love. Then the middle of the set, that's when Rybakina had a chance to break back and that could have really changed the tone of this set and this match because had Rybakina broken back at 3-2 there and it got to three all, we'd have a totally different match, but Swiatek, she ends up holding. Then she gets the insurance break and then she ends up winning the set 6-2 and really, really impressive against Rybakina's serve. All right, the second set, Rybakina, she serves first and she ends up holding, so she starts to, you know, gain the lead. But then at 2-0, Swiatek gets break point and gets the break. She goes up 4-2 pretty quickly as well. Then there's a little bit of a tricky game at 4-3, but she gets through it and then of course on match point, she gets a second championship point, she gets it on the Rybakina serve as well. So broke Rybakina four times, twice in each set, which is phenomenal against, you know, Rybakina's big serve, but also didn't get broken herself, which is a great, you know, great for Swiatek, too. So there it is, that is basically Swiatek's tournament and she's played so well this week. She beat Svitolina, she beat Schneider, who's been in form, and she's also beaten Svitolina, who she's lost to the last two times, and now Rybakina, so she is back. Her confidence looks so good today as well. And she's also won her eighth 1000 title out of the 10 that are available. She's just got to win Dubai and Wuhan to get the Golden Masters. And, you know, very achievable, very achievable because she's done well in that in Dubai before and she's hasn't played Wuhan that much, but you'd think she's won Beijing, so she should be able to, you know, have a good run at Wuhan eventually, but man, she is on fire this week and she goes into Cincinnati as the defending champion next week and has a really good shot at improving her ranking as we get to the US Open, so it'd be interesting to see how she does next week. Her draw is actually pretty manageable now if you look at who she's going to play. There could be a rematch with Rebecca in the quarterfinals, which would be really, really fun, but let me know in the comments below. Do you think she won this back? Is she back? Is this confirmation that she's back? Because I mean she was incredible. As soon as she came back against Kostyuk, she just looked like her old self again and her coach wasn't there, but you could feel that the Roig effect was starting to come into play and she was starting to play like her old self, but yeah, dominates this match and gets the title in Canada.