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Tennis: It’s Swiatek against Sabalenka for a place in French Open final

# Tennis: Triple-defending champion Iga Swiatek marched into the semi-finals at Roland Garros with a straight-sets victory over 13th seed Elina Svitolina. Swiatek beat the former world number three 6-1, 7-5 to continue her bid to equal a 102-year record by winning four successive French Open titles. The Polish fifth seed will face world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals after the Belarusian earlier beat Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in the quarter-finals. The rivals have never met at Roland Garros, but Swiatek emerged the victor in their last two meetings on clay.