Iga Świątek (born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She was the champion at the 2020 French Open and is the first Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title in history. As a junior, she was the 2018 French Open girls’ doubles champion alongside Caty McNally, and the 2018 Wimbledon girls’ singles champion. She 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.
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Iga Świątek (born 31 May 2001) is a Polish professional tennis player. She was the champion at the 2020 French Open and is the first Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title in history. As a junior, she was the 2018 French Open girls’ doubles champion alongside Caty McNally, and the 2018 Wimbledon girls’ singles champion. She 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. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 17 in the world in 2019. She entered the top 50 at 18 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. She won the WTA Fan Favorite Shot of the Year in 2019 with a drop shot from the baseline. She is the youngest women’s singles champion since Monica Seles in 1992. She has a sister Agata who is about three years older and is a student of dentistry at the Medical University of Lublin. Her father is a former rower who competed in the men’s quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Iga followed her sister into tennis because she wanted to beat her and also wanted to be more like her. 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.
In 2016, she finished runner-up in both singles and doubles at the Czech Junior Open. She made her junior Grand Slam debut in 2016 at theFrench Open, reaching the quarterfinals in both doubles and singles. Despite only competing in two Grand Slam events in 2018 and three singles in total, she won her first Grand Slam title with her junior career best season. She returned to the junior tour at the French Open after a one-year absence and reached the semifinals in singles, losing to Yuki Naito and Naho Naho Sato in the final of the final. Her season came to an end after she had right ankle surgery that kept her out for seven months. In 2018, she partnered with compatriot Maja Chwalińska to make her first final in Grand Slam event, finishing in doubles to the North American team of Bianca Andreescu and Carsonstine. She then reached her first Grade A singles final at the Troo Bonfiglio Bonfiglio, losing in the Trofeo Branbakina final to Elena Rybio. She also won the Grade 1 Canadian Open Junior Championships, defeating Olga Danilović in thefinal. In 2019, she reached her best junior title to date at Grade 1 Traralgon Junior International. She had a strong first half of 2017, winning both the singles and double titles at the Grade1 Trar amalgon Junior Championships.
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