Iga Świątek


Iga Świątek is a tennis player from Poland. She has won seven ITF singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 49 on August 19th 2019.
As a junior, she was part of the Polish team which won the Junior Fed Cup in 2016. She was also the 2018 French Open girls' doubles champion with Caty McNally, having lost to her partner in the singles' semi-final, but the highlight of her junior career was her victory in the girls' singles final at Wimbledon a few weeks later, defeating Leonie Küng of Switzerland in straight sets. She completed her junior career at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, where she won the gold medal in the girls' doubles with Kaja Juvan of Slovenia, who also won gold in the girls' singles.

Early life and background

Iga Świątek was born to 1988 Olympic rower Tomasz Świątek who competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She resides in Raszyn, a small town near Warsaw.

Career

2016 to 2017: Junior career and early years

In summer 2016, Świątek defeated Olga Danilović in the final of the Canadian Open Junior Championships, and followed that with her first win in a senior ITF tournament in Stockholm at age 15. She then beat Marta Kostyuk in the title match at the AGL Loy Yang Traralgon Junior International in January 2017, and then claimed her first clay-court singles title on the ITF pro circuit a month later with a victory over Martina Di Giuseppe in Bergamo. Świątek came through the qualifying rounds to reach the final.

2018: Wimbledon Championships junior singles title

Świątek missed seven months after right ankle surgery in 2017, but made a return in both ITF and junior Grand Slam tournaments.
At age 17, Świątek and her partner Caty McNally beat Yuki Naito and Naho Sato in the French Open junior doubles final. She also reached the junior singles semifinals, losing to McNally in three sets.
On 14 July 2018, Świątek reached her first Grand Slam junior singles final, in which she defeated Switzerland's Leonie Küng in straight sets. Świątek became the fourth Polish junior champion at Wimbledon after Aleksandra Olsza and Agnieszka and Urszula Radwańska.
Świątek won back-to-back $60,000 titles in Budapest and Montreux to enter the top 200.
In October, Świątek competed at the third Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. She qualified based on her ITF world junior rankings, and played singles, doubles and mixed doubles. She won the gold medal in doubles with Kaja Juvan, defeating Yuki Naito and Naho Sato of Japan in the final.
Świątek had a strong 2018 season, raising her ranking from No. 727 to a career high of No. 174 and winning four ITF titles. Her year-end ranking was 186.

2019: First WTA final, and top 50

Świątek started the season with her first WTA event at the Auckland Open, where she lost in the final round of qualifying. She made it through the qualifying rounds of the Australian Open, and in the first round, Świątek defeated Ana Bogdan in three sets. Following the Australian Open, Świątek achieved a new career-high singles ranking of No. 140 and participated in the 2019 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, which was played in Zielona Gora, Poland.
In February, Świątek made it to the second round at the Hungarian Ladies Open. At the Ladies Open Lugano in Switzerland, Świątek upset No. 3 seed Viktória Kužmová in three sets to reach her first WTA quarterfinal. The win over the world No. 46 was the first top-50 victory in Świątek's career.. She then defeated the No. 8 seed Vera Lapko and Kristýna Plíšková to reach her first WTA final. An incredible cross-court forehand drop shot against Plíšková in the semi-final became the 2019 WTA Shot of the Year. She lost the final to Polona Hercog in three sets. Reaching the Lugano final boosted her into the Top 100 for the very first time.
Iga Świątek bounced back from a first-set bagel to defeat Monica Puig and reach the second week in her first French Open. Making her French Open main draw debut, Świątek became the second player born in the 2000s to reach week two of a major - following Amanda Anisimova's efforts at the Australian Open. Świątek lost to defending champion Simona Halep in the fourth round.
At the Citi Open, Świątek recovered from a set and a double break deficit for a win over Ons Jabeur and then lost in the second round to the eventual champion Jessica Pegula. Świątek continued at the Rogers Cup, where she defeated Shelby Rogers and Heather Watson in the qualifying rounds to make the main draw. She defeated Caroline Wozniacki in the second round before falling to Naomi Osaka in the third round. After a great campaign in Toronto, Świątek played the Cincinnati Masters where she defeated Caroline Garcia in an hour and 31 minutes.

2020

At the Australian Open Świątek was playing her first tournament since she underwent foot surgery following the 2019 US Open. She defeated Tímea Babos, Carla Suárez Navarro and Donna Vekić, all in straight sets, to advance to the fourth round at a Grand Slam championship for the second time in her career, where she lost to Anett Kontaveit in three sets.
She followed that with three wins from three matches at the Fed Cup Group I tournament in Luxembourg before travelling to Qatar, where she beat Vekić in the first round and lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second. That was her last match before international play was suspended due to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Singles

Current through the suspension of the 2020 WTA Tour.

Doubles

Mixed doubles

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–12019 Ladies Open Lugano – Singles|Ladies Open Lugano, SwitzerlandInternationalClay Polona Hercog3–6, 6–3, 3–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 7 (7 titles)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Oct 2016ITF Stockholm, Sweden10,000Hard Laura-Ioana Paar6–4, 6–3
Win2–0Feb 2017ITF Bergamo, Italy15,000Clay Martina Di Giuseppe6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Win3–0May 2017ITF Győr, Hungary15,000Clay Gabriela Horáčková6–2, 6–2
Win4–0Feb 2018ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Britt Geukens6–3, 6–1
Win5–0Apr 2018ITF Pelham, United States25,000Clay Allie Kiick6–2, 6–0
Win6–02018 NEK Ladies Open – Singles|ITF Budapest, Hungary60,000Clay Katarina Zavatska6–2, 6–2
Win7–02018 Montreux Ladies Open – Singles|ITF Montreux, Switzerland60,000Clay Kimberley Zimmermann6–2, 6–2

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Feb 2018ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Constanze Stepan Anna Morgina
Valeriya Solovyeva		4–6, 2–6

Fed Cup participation

Singles

Doubles

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (1 title)

Girls' doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

ITF junior results

Singles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Apr 2015Nottingham, Great BritainG4Hard Emily Smith6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Win2–0May 2015Budapest, HungaryG4Clay Johana Markova6–2, 6–2
Win3–0Jun 2015Riga, LatviaG4Clay Paulina Bakaite6–3, 6–0
Loss3–1Sep 2015Prague, Czech RepublicG2Clay Anastasia Zarytska5–7, 1–6
Win4–1Sep 2016Repentigny, CanadaG1Hard Olga Danilović3–6, 2–0 ret.
Win5–1Jan 2017Traralgon, AustraliaG1Hard Marta Kostyuk6–3, 6–3
Loss5–2May 2017Milan, ItalyGAClay Elena Rybakina6–1, 6–7, 3–6
Win6–2Jul 2018Wimbledon, United KingdomJGSGrass Leonie Küng6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Win1–0Jun 2015Riga, LatviaG4Clay Wiktoria Rutkowska Ninel Batalova
Hanna Sokal		6–3, 6–4
Loss1–1Sep 2015Prague, Czech RepublicG2Clay Daria Kuczer Barbora Matusova
Eva Marie Voracek		6–7, 1–6
Win2–1Jan 2017Traralgon, AustraliaG1Hard Maja Chwalińska Gabriella Da Silva Fick
Kaitlin Staines		3–6, 6–4, 10–7
Loss2–2Jan 2017Australian Open, AustraliaJGSHard Maja Chwalińska Bianca Andreescu
Carson Branstine		1–6, 6–7
Win3–2Jun 2018French Open, FranceJGSClay Caty McNally Yuki Naito
Naho Sato		6–2, 7–5

Team competition: 1 title

Record against other players

Record against top 10 players

Świątek's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10 :

Record against top 50 ranked players