Iga Świątek

Iga Świątek

Iga Świątek 2018 at the Summer Youth Olympic Games

Nation:

Poland

Birthday:

31. May 2001
(19 years)

Size:

176 cm

1. Professional Season:

2016

Playing Hand:

Right, two-handed backhand

Coach:

Piotr Sierzputowski

Prize money:

3.$332,979

Single

Career record:

123:36

Career Title:

2 WTA, 7 ITF

Highest Placement:

15 (March 1, 2021)

Current Placement:

15

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam Titles:00000 1

Australian Open	AF (2020, 2021)
French Open	S (2020)
Wimbledon	1R (2019)
US Open	3R (2020)

Double

Career record:

19:11

Career Title:

0 WTA, 0 ITF

Highest Placement:

58 (May 10, 2021)

Current Placement:

58

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam Titles:00000 0

Australian Open	– —
French Open	HF (2020)
Wimbledon	– —
US Open	– —

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam Titles:00000 0

Australian Open	VF (2020)
French Open	– —
Wimbledon	– —
US Open	– —

Last update of the infobox:
May 10, 2021

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP/WTA (see weblinks)

Iga Natalia Świątek^[1]

[ˈiɡa naˈtalʲja ˈɕfʲjɔ̃ntɛk] (born 31 May 2001 in Warsaw) is a Polish tennis player. Her greatest achievement to date is winning the title at the 2020 French Open. She is the first Polish woman to win a Grand Slam tournament.^[2]

Career

Iga Świątek, whose father Tomasz was a rower in the Polish double sculls at the 1988 Seoul Olympics,^[3] began playing tennis at the age of six. Already as a junior, she was able to celebrate her first major triumphs. In 2018, for example, she first won the doubles competition of the junior women’s event at the French Open alongside Catherine McNally after a final victory over Japan’s Yūki Naitō and Naho Satō, and less than a month later she won the junior women’s title at Wimbledon after an outright two-set victory over Switzerland’s Leonie Küng. That same year, she teamed up with Kaja Juvan to triumph in the girls’ doubles at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires and reached the quarterfinals in singles. For her victory there, she was nominated for the Piotr Nurowski Prize in 2018. In 2019, she reached her highest position in the junior women’s world rankings at number five.

Back in 2016, Świątek made her debut on the ITF Women’s World Tennis Tour and won her first professional title in the same year. In 2017, she was victorious in two more ITF tournaments, but due to a right ankle injury that required surgery, she had to take a break for the rest of the season starting in June.^[4] She made her comeback seven months later in the Fed Cup for the Polish Fed Cup team against Bulgaria. Over the course of 2018, Świątek improved with more than 40 wins to just six must-win losses and three titles,^[5] including her biggest ever at a $60,000 tournament in Budapest, into the top 200 in the world rankings.

In 2018 Świątek made her debut for the Polish Fed Cup team in a 2-1 win over Turkey. Since then she has played ten matches for her country in singles and doubles, winning seven of them (singles record 5:2)
In 2016 she won the Junior Fed Cup together with Maja Chwalińska and Stefania Rogozińska Dzik. In the final they beat the team from the United States 2:1.

Iga Świątek in May 2019

In 2019, Świątek played her first Grand Slam qualifier at the Australian Open, where she reached the second round on her first attempt after defeating Ana Bogdan. She then advanced to her first WTA Tour final in Lugano in her second main draw appearance, where she lost to Polona Hercog in three sets. Świątek then surprised at the French Open by reaching the round of 16, but lost outright to Simona Halep, and advanced to the third round at the Rogers Cup in Montreal as a qualifier after defeating Caroline Wozniacki. After reaching the second round at the US Open, she ended the season ranked in the top 50 in the world for the first time.

In 2020 Świątek reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the second time at the Australian Open, where she lost to Anett Kontaveit in three sets. Before the season was interrupted by the pandemic, she achieved her best-ever world ranking of 48th. At the US Open, she reached the third round, where she lost to eventual finalist Wiktoryja Azaranka. A few weeks later, she reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open in October without losing a set, which she won against Sofia Kenin in two sets, 6-4 and 6-1. Earlier, she won her match against top-seeded Simona Halep 6-1, 6-2 in the round of 16. By winning her first Grand Slam title, she moved up to 17th in the world rankings.

Tournament wins

Single

No.	Date	Tournament	Category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	30. October 2016	Sweden Stockholm	ITF $10,000	Hard court (indoor)	Romania Laura-Ioana Andrei	6:4, 6:3
2.	18. February 2017	Italy Bergamo	ITF $15,000	Sand	Italy Martina Di Giuseppe	6:4, 3:6, 6:3
3.	7. May 2017	Hungary Győr	ITF $15,000	Sand	Czech Republic Gabriela Horacková	6:2, 6:2
4.	25. February 2018	Egypt Sharm ash-Shaykh	ITF $15,000	Hard court	Belgium Britt Geukens	6:3, 6:1
5.	15. April 2018	United States Pelham	ITF $25,000	Sand	United States Allie Klick	6:2, 6:0
6.	1. September 2018	Hungary Budapest	ITF $60,000	Sand	Ukraine Katarina Sawazka	6:2, 6:2
7.	9. September 2018	Switzerland Montreux	ITF $80,000	Sand	Belgium Kimberley Zimmermann	6:2, 6:2
8.	10. October 2020	France French Open	Grand slam	Sand	United States Sofia Kenin	6:4, 6:1
9.	27. February 2021	Australia Adelaide	WTA 500	Hard court	Switzerland Belinda Bencic	6:2, 6:2