Iga Świątek

During this time, Świątek accumulated a 37-match winning streak, the longest on the WTA Tour in the 21st century.

With major titles at the French and US Opens, she finished 2022 as the dominant No. 1. In 2023 she defended her French Open title and claimed the WTA Finals to finish as year-end No. 1 again.

Świątek has an all-court playing style.

Her father is a former rower who competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Her mother is an orthodontist.

She has a sister, Agata, who is about three years older and is a dentist.

Świątek's father wanted his daughters to become competitive athletes and preferred they take up an individual sport rather than a team sport to have better control of their chances of success.

Agata initially started out as a swimmer but switched to tennis after she had issues with swimming.

Iga followed her sister into tennis because she wanted to beat her and also because she wanted to be more like her.

Iga Natalia Świątek (born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player.

She is currently 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 94 weeks.

Iga Świątek was born on 31 May 2001 in Warsaw to Dorota and Tomasz Świątek.

Agata briefly competed on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2013 at about 15 years old, but stopped playing due to injury troubles.

Iga trained at Mera Warsaw as a 14-year-old before later moving to Legia Warsaw.

Świątek reached a career-high ranking of No. 5 as a junior.

She began competing in ITF Junior Circuit events in 2015 and won back-to-back low-level Grade 4 titles in April and May at age 13.

Before the end of the year, she moved up to Grade 2 events and finished runner-up in both singles and doubles at the Czech Junior Open.

Świątek made her junior Grand Slam debut in 2016 at the French Open, reaching the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles.

She followed this up with her best junior title to date at the Grade 1 Canadian Open Junior Championships, defeating Olga Danilović in the final.

Świątek had a strong first half of 2017.

She won both the singles and doubles titles at the Grade 1 Traralgon Junior International.

Although she lost her opening round match at the Australian Open, she partnered with compatriot Maja Chwalińska to make her first final in a Grand Slam event, finishing runner-up in doubles to the North American team of Bianca Andreescu and Carson Branstine.

She then reached her first Grade A singles final at the Trofeo Bonfiglio, losing to Elena Rybakina.

Her season came to an end after another quarterfinal at the French Open, after which she had right ankle surgery that kept her out for seven months.

As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion alongside Caty McNally and the 2018 Wimbledon girls' singles champion.

Despite only competing in two Grand Slam tournaments in 2018 and three singles events in total, Świątek finished her junior career with her best season.

She returned to the junior tour at the French Open after a one-year absence and reached the semi-finals in singles, losing to Caty McNally.

She fared better in doubles, partnering with McNally to win her first junior Grand Slam title.

They defeated the Japanese team of Yuki Naito and Naho Sato in the final.

Świątek played only singles at Wimbledon.

Świątek 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.

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 the 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.

Świątek is a four-time major singles champion, having won the French Open in 2020, 2022, and 2023 and the US Open in 2022.

She is the first player representing Poland to win a major singles title.

She has won a total of 18 singles titles, including the 2023 WTA Finals.

Świątek's father, Tomasz, is a retired Olympic rower.

During her French Open title run in 2020, Świątek did not lose more than five games in any singles match.

She entered the top ten of the WTA rankings for the first time in May 2021 after winning the Italian Open.

Following back-to-back WTA 1000 titles in 2022 at Qatar and Indian Wells, Świątek reached a career-high ranking of No. 2. After the retirement of world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty, she became the first Polish player, male or female, to reach the top ranking in singles, on 4 April 2022.