By: Yiling Sun

Karolina Muchova is a fantastic tennis player. She has won many matches in her lifetime. Recently, She met her match in the women’s French Open. Her opponent’s name is Iga Swiatek and is ranked number one in the world for tennis. Muchova is hard to play against, and she pushes her forehands right on the baseline. She also hits killing drop shots, and she can return the fastest of balls from her opponent with a single slice.

Muchova won against Aryna Sabalenka, the local favorite “A little bit out of radar, but she always plays great tennis,” Sabalenka said. “It’s kind of a little bit tricky to build a point against her.”

Muchova was a late bloomer—by the standards of the Czech Republic—and when she did hit her growth spurt, it raised her height to five foot eleven, but it also aroused knee and back pain. Luckily she pushed through and nursed herself back to health once more. She was healthy just in time for the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and the semifinals of the Australian Open.

“Many lows, I would say, from one injury to another,” Muchova said. “Some doctors told me, you know, maybe you’ll not do sports anymore.”

But she was injured many times after, and she went from 19th place to 235th place in the world rankings. She went through many rehabilitations before returning back to tennis.

Being the 43rd in the world, she entered the French Open. She beat Maria Sakkari in a tight match.

“Here and there I had to let it out and scream a little bit,” Muchova said. “It was crazy out there.”

The crazier thing is that Muchova is going to face Swiatek, who won this tournament in 2020 as well as 2022.

The 22-year-old Swiatek won her first Grand Slam title when she was 19 years old, and when she was 20 years old, she was number one in the Her strategy is to aggressively attack her opponents. It works pretty well. She takes every opportunity to shoot a forehand at an impressive angle far out of her opponent’s reach.

“Pretty excited to play against Muchova,” Swiatek said after playing a tight comeback.

Muchova and Swiatek are both great tennis players. They’re going to compete with each other to see which one is stronger. Which one was stronger?

Swiatek was. She won the match against Muchova. Even though Muchova beat Swiatek four years ago, Swiatek improved and overcame Muchova. They are both very skilled players.