Home cooking: Iga Swiatek rolls past Laura Siegemund to win Warsaw title

WATCH: Iga Swiatek took home her fourth title of 2023 by triumphing at home in Warsaw.

Different stresses, same result. World No. 1 Iga Swiatek cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win over Germany's Laura Siegemund in the final of the BNP Paribas Warsaw Open on Sunday to claim her fourth title of 2023, and first on home soil in Poland.

Swiatek, candid in the lead-up to, and during, the week about the unique mental pressures she felt by being the starring attraction at the WTA 250 event, saved her best performance in five matches for the final. She won the first nine games against Siegemund, and the last three, without facing a break point over 68 minutes. She also broke the German five times.

It was a long road for both players to get to the championship match. Before taking the court against Siegemund, Swiatek finished off her semifinal against Yanina Wickmayer, which was suspended on Saturday night due to darkness with the top seed ahead 6-1, 5-5—but after she led 5-2 and had three match points at 5-3 in the second set. (Earlier in the day, Swiatek beat Czech teenager Linda Noskova in the quarterfinals—a match that was washed out on Friday due to rain.)

Upon resumption against Wickmayer, Swiatek was two points away from being pushed to a decider twice in the 12th game, and needed three subsequent match points in the tiebreak from 5-1 up, to seal the 6-1, 7-6(6) win.

That match proved to be Swiatek's most complicated on the scoreboard for the week. She didn't lose a set in her five wins, and that second set against Wickmayer marked the only time she lost more than four games in a set.

"I want to thank my team and my family. It's not easy to play in Warsaw, but I'm so happy that we could manage and do everything we could today, after a pretty tiring day yesterday," Swiatek said in the trophy ceremony.

"I wanted to put it all in and go for it. I'm pretty happy that I did."

Siegemund, meanwhile, played more than six hours of tennis in her quarterfinal and semifinal matches to reach her first final in six years. The former world No. 27's quarterfinal win over Italy's Lucrezia Stefanini stretched across two days, totaling three hours and 26 minutes in all, and she also needed nearly three hours to beat her fellow German Tatjana Maria in the semifinals from a set down.

Siegemund was playing her first final since winning the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart in 2017, and dropped to 2-2 in her career in WTA singles finals. Ranked No. 153 to start the week, the 35-year-old will rise more than 40 places in Monday's rankings.

"I'm sorry I couldn't put up more of a battle today, but it was a little bit too much yesterday," Siegemund said in her runner-up speech. "I tried my best, but the legs, they stayed at the hotel today.

"But for me, it was really a great success anyway ... it was almost a win for me to be a final at all. It's been a long time. On such a great stage with such great spectators ... I just enjoyed it."