The numbers behind Iga Swiatek's historic Rome triumph

Iga Swiatek's clay dominance refuses to wane ahead of the eagerly-anticipated French Open, as the world number one demolished Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday's Italian Open final.

The two best female players on the planet reunited just one week on from an epic encounter in the Madrid Open, which Swiatek just edged in three, but the Pole was a much more convincing victor in Rome.

With just one hour and 29 minutes on the board, an unyielding Swiatek stormed to a 6-2 6-3 victory over the world number two, who simply had no answer to the 22-year-old's all-around supremacy, sharing the same fate as Swiatek's previous Rome victims Coco Gauff, Madison Keys, Bernarda Pera, Angelique Kerber and Yulia Putintseva.

Here, <strong>Sports Mole</strong> . . .