Because of how different clay court tennis is stylistically from hard court or grass court, the French Open lends itself to dominance by players that have mastered that surface. On the men's side, we saw Rafael Nadal lord over the clay for nearly two decades,

No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka has ended Iga Swiatek’s 26-match French Open winning streak and reached the final in Paris for the first time.

By Julien Pretot and Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) -World number one Aryna Sabalenka battled past four-times champion Iga Swiatek to reach her first French Open final with a 7-6(1) 4-6 6-0 win on Thursday that ended the Pole's reign in Paris and snapped her 26-game winning streak at the tournament.