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Iga Świątek
Polish tennis player (born 2001)
Iga Natalia Świątek (Polish pronunciation:[ˈiɡanaˈtaljaˈɕfjɔntɛk]ⓘ;[2] born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), having held the position for a total of 125 weeks (seventh on the all-time list). Świątek has won 22 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including five major titles: four at the French Open and one at the US Open. 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 N
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Tennis Biography
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