Episode 1257
Iga Świątek
Sun, 2020-Oct-11 02:06 UTC
Length - 3:03
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With 205,791 views on Saturday, 10 October 2020 our article of the day is Iga Świątek.
Iga Świątek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈiɡa ˈɕfjɔntɛk]; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 48 in the world, and is the third-highest ranked teenager behind Amanda Anisimova and Coco Gauff. She is the reigning champion at the French Open and the first Polish Grand Slam singles champion in history. With her French Open title, she also became the youngest singles champion at the tournament since Rafael Nadal in 2005, and the youngest women's singles champion since Monica Seles in 1992.
Świątek's father Tomasz was an Olympic rower. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion alongside Caty McNally and the 2018 Wimbledon girls' singles champion. She also led Poland to the Junior Fed Cup crown in 2016 and won a doubles gold medal for Poland at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics with Slovenian Kaja Juvan. Świątek began playing regularly on the WTA Tour in 2019. She was able to break into the top 50 at 17 years old after her first appearance in a WTA final and a fourth round appearance at the French Open, where she was defeated by Simona Halep in a lopsided match. During her French Open title run in 2020, Świątek rebounded to defeat the top-seeded Halep in the same round by a similarly lopsided scoreline and did not drop a set or lose more than five games to any opponent in the singles event.
Świątek has an all-court style of play. She won the WTA Fan Favorite Shot of the Year in 2019 with a drop shot from the baseline, and also finished second to Halep in the WTA Fan Favorite Singles Player of the Year award that same year.
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