Iga Świątek

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Iga Świątek Tennis player
Iga Świątek
Iga Świątek 2018 at the French Open
for Girls (June 2018)
Nation: PolandPoland Poland
Birthday: 31st May 2001
(age 19)
Size: 176 cm
1st professional season: 2016
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Piotr Sierzputowski
Prize money: $ 909,148
singles
Career record: 101: 28
Career title: 0 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking: 48 (February 3, 2020)
Current placement: 49
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 8: 7
Career title: 0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking: 442 (October 14, 2019)
Current placement: 457
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox:
March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Iga Świątek (born May 31, 2001 in Warsaw ) is a Polish tennis player .

Career

Iga Świątek whose father Tomasz at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul in the Polish sculls sat, began at the age of six years playing tennis. As a junior, she was able to celebrate her first major triumphs. In 2018 she won the double competition of the French Open junior competition at the side of Catherine McNally after a final success over the Japanese Yūki Naitō and Naho Satō and just under a month later the junior women’s title at Wimbledon after a straight two-set victory over Leonie Küng . In the same year she triumphed with Kaja Juvan together at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in the girls doubles and achieved the quarterfinals in the 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 tennis world rankings with fifth place .

Świątek made her debut on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour in 2016 and won her first professional title in the same year. In 2017 she won two more ITF tournaments, but due to an injury to her right ankle that required surgery, she had to take a break for the rest of the season from June. She made her comeback seven months later in the Fed Cup for the Polish Fed Cup team against Bulgaria . In the course of 2018, Świątek improved to the top 200 in the world rankings with more than 40 wins in only six competitive defeats and three titles, including her biggest to date in a tournament in the $ 60,000 category in Budapest .

In 2019, Świątek played for the first time the qualification at a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open and immediately reached the second round after defeating Ana Bogdan . In Lugano she then advanced to her first final on the WTA tour in her second main field participation , in which she was defeated by Polona Hercog in three sets. At the French Open , Świątek then surprised by moving into the round of 16, but lost there smoothly to Simona Halep , and came into the third round at the Rogers Cup in Montreal as a qualifier after a victory over Caroline Wozniacki . After reaching the second round at the US Open , she ended the season that she closed for the first time among the top 50 in the world.

At the Australian Open 2020 Świątek reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the second time, where she was defeated by Anett Kontaveit in three close sets. Before the corona-related end of the season, she achieved her best world ranking position to date with 48th place.

In 2018, Świątek made her debut for the Polish Fed Cup team in a 2-1 win against Turkey . Since then, she has played ten singles and doubles games for her country, of which she has won seven (individual balance 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.

Awards

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. October 30, 2016 SwedenSweden Stockholm ITF $ 10,000 Hard court (hall) RomaniaRomania Laura-Ioana Andrei 6: 4, 6: 3
2. 18th February 2017 ItalyItaly Bergamo ITF $ 15,000 sand ItalyItaly Martina Di Giuseppe 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
3. May 7, 2017 HungaryHungary Győr ITF $ 15,000 sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Gabriela Horacková 6: 2, 6: 2
4th February 25, 2018 EgyptEgypt Sharm El Sheikh ITF $ 15,000 Hard court BelgiumBelgium Britt Geukens 6: 3, 6: 1
5. April 15, 2018 United StatesUnited States Pelham ITF $ 25,000 sand United StatesUnited States Allie click 6: 2, 6: 0
6th 1st September 2018 HungaryHungary Budapest ITF $ 60,000 sand UkraineUkraine Katarina Sawazka 6: 2, 6: 2
7th September 9, 2018 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Montreux ITF $ 80,000 sand BelgiumBelgium Kimberley Carpenter 6: 2, 6: 2

Web links

Commons : Iga Świątek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Swiatek follows father's footsteps 38 years later. In: ausopen.com. January 26, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  2. Lekarz: Światek czeka kilkumiesieczna rehabilitacja. ale never podda you, jest twarda. In: przegladsportowy.pl. June 30, 2017, Retrieved June 9, 2018 (Polish).
  3. WTA Scouting Report: Iga Swiatek takes her shot at the top. In: wtatennis.com. December 30, 2019, accessed July 23, 2020 .