Episode 2993
Iga Świątek
Sun, 2025-Jul-13 02:18 UTC
Length - 3:14
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Iga Natalia Świątek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈiɡa naˈtalja ˈɕfjɔntɛk] ; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. Currently ranked No. 4 in women’s singles by the WTA, she previously held the world No. 1 ranking for a total of 125 weeks. Świątek has won 23 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including six major titles: four at the French Open, one at Wimbledon and one at the US Open; Świątek is the only active female tennis player, and eighth woman ever, to have won Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces. She has also won the 2023 WTA Finals and ten WTA 1000 titles. 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 dominant form 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. She has claimed the French Open title at four of her seven appearances at the tournament, having never lost a match before the fourth round. She won her first Wimbledon title in 2025, becoming the first player to win every game in a major final since 1988.
Świątek has an all-court playing style. She won the WTA Fan Favorite Shot of the Year in 2019 with a drop shot from the baseline, and was voted WTA Fan Favorite Singles Player of the Year in 2020. In 2023, she was named L'Équipe Champion of Champions and Polish Sports Personality of the Year and included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2025, Świątek made it to the Madame Tussauds Hot 100 list for her philanthropic act and advocacy.
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