However, the unseeded Czech had won all five matches in her career against players in the top three - four of them at Grand Slams - having stunned Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals. Muchova's compatriot Renata Tomanova was runner-up in 1976. Swiatek, then just 19, was ranked 54 when she lifted her first trophy - three years after Jelena Ostapenko's shock triumph. Muchova, at 43 in the world, was the fourth lowest ranked woman to reach the French Open final, her first championship match at a major. Swiatek's latest coronation caps another dominant two weeks on the clay in Paris, where her record stands at 28 wins and two losses in five visits. Justine Henin was the last woman to win successive Roland Garros crowns when she captured her third in a row and fourth in total 16 years ago. Swiatek, the world number one from Poland, is also the youngest woman to claim back-to-back French Open titles since Monica Seles in the early 1990s. Monica Seles and Naomi Osaka are the only other players to accomplish the feat.

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