Iga Świątek

Life and work

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Grand Slam champion and former world number one known for heavy topspin and all-court development.

Iga Natalia Świątek (born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. Currently ranked world No. 9 in women's singles by the WTA, she has held the world No. 1 ranking for a total of 125 weeks, seventh-most of all-time. Świątek has won 26 WTA Tour–level singles titles, including six major titles: four at the French Open, one at Wimbledon, and one at the US Open. She has also won the 2023 WTA Finals and twelve WTA 1000 events. Świątek is the first Pole to win a major singles title. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion alongside Caty McNally and the 2018 Wimbledon girls' singles champion. She began playing regularly on the WTA Tour in 2019, and entered the top 50 at 18 years old after her first Tour final and a fourth-round appearance at the 2019 French Open. In 2020, Świątek won her first major at the French Open in dominant fashion, losing no more than five games in any singles match. She entered the top ten of the WTA rankings for the first time in May 2021. In early 2022, Świątek surged into dominance with a 37-match winning streak, the longest on the WTA Tour in the 21st century, becoming world No. 1 in the process. With major titles at the French and US Opens, she finished 2022 as the world's best player. She repeated the year-end No. 1 feat in 2023 by defending her French Open title and claiming the WTA Finals, and won the French Open for a third straight edition in 2024. Świątek won her first grass court title at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships. She has claimed the French Open title at four of her eight appearances at the tournament, having never lost a match before the fourth round. In 2025 Świątek was suspended for one month for a drug found in contaminated sleep medication. Świątek has an all-court playing style. She…

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