(Sports news, tennis news) At the age of 22, Iga Swiatek is achieving the achievements that “Doll” Maria Sharapova would have wished for.
Iga Swiatek, world number 1, lost to opponent Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) in the semi-finals of the Stuttgart Open last weekend, thereby failing to successfully defend the title of champion of this tournament. This is not a good result compared to the level of the Polish tennis player, but the 22-year-old star has just received even greater joy.
Swiatek has held the world number 1 women’s singles ranking for 100 weeks
According to the WTA rankings announced on April 22, Swiatek still holds the top spot with 10,560 points, reaching the 100th week holding the highest position in women’s tennis singles in the world. The new achievement also entails a series of impressive milestones for the Spanish tennis player, numbers that former world No. 1 such as Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin, Ana Ivanovic, Victoria Azarenka… have never achieved.
Records when Swiatek reached 100 weeks as number 1
1: Swiatek became the first Polish player (both men and women) to win a Grand Slam singles title at Roland Garros 2020.
6: Number of WTA titles Swiatek won before becoming number 1, including 1 Grand Slam and 4 WTA 1000 titles.
6: Since first winning the world No. 1 position, Swiatek is the player with the most 6 titles: winning the most Grand Slam titles (3 times), winning the most WTA titles (13 times), in Most WTA finals (16 times), number of wins – 131 matches, wins against top 10 opponents (27 matches) and number of 6-0 set wins (39 times).
Swiatek (right) has the numbers Masha (left) desires
13: Is the number of WTA titles that Swiatek won after reaching No. 1 for the first time, including 2 Roland Garros 2022, 2023 and US Open 2022.
18: It took Swiatek 18 months to reach No. 1 after winning his first Grand Slam title.
23: At 19 years, 132 days, Swiatek is the youngest Roland Garros champion since Monica Seles in 1992. 23 years since a teenager last won a clay Grand Slam (Iva Majoli, 1997) .
28: Swiatek becomes the 28th WTA No. 1 on April 4, 2022.
36: Since 2020, Swiatek holds the most wins against top 10 WTA opponents of any player with a record of 36 wins, 13 losses.
37: Number of consecutive wins by Swiatek in 2022, the longest WTA winning streak of the century and the longest since Martina Hingis set it in 1997 (also won 37 matches).
54: Swiatek’s ranking entering Roland Garros 2020, making her the lowest-ranked WTA Roland Garros champion to win this tournament.
75: Number of consecutive weeks Swiatek held the No. 1 position until being surpassed by Aryna Sabalenka after the 2023 US Open.
175: Swiatek’s ranking on January 1, 2019. The 17-year-old played her first professional WTA match at the Australian Open and broke into the top 100 just six months later.
Statistics show that Swiatek is not inferior to the legends
1: In the past 10 years, there has only been one player with a higher winning percentage while holding the world No. 1 position than Swiatek (86%, 123-20) and that is Serena Williams (88.3%, 143-19).
2: With 2 WTA 1000 titles this season (Doha and Indian Wells), Swiatek has surpassed Serena Williams (played 49 tournaments, won 13, rate of 26.5%) to have the highest championship rate in the tournaments. WTA 1000 events (played 28 tournaments, won 8 times, equivalent to 28.6%).
It is no exaggeration to consider Swiatek one of the best stars at the age of 22
8: Swiatek is number 1 in the world with a competition record of 123 wins, 20 losses. She is one of eight players to win 100 or more matches while ranked top, along with Martina Navratilova, Stefanie Graf, Martina Hingis, Serena Williams Chris Evert, Monica Seles and Justine Henin.
19: With a record of 19 wins and 4 losses in WTA finals, Swiatek equaled legendary Chris Evert, Gail Sheriff and Nancy Richey for the most wins in her first 23 WTA women’s singles finals. racket, since the open era (1968).
35: Number of matches Swiatek has won in Grand Slam matches as world No. 1. Since 2000, only two players have done better than Swiatek, including Serena Williams (124 wins) and Martina Hingis (36 wins). Swiatek can surpass Hingis next month when he plays at Roland Garros 2024.
36: Over the past four decades, only Martina Navratilova (44 wins) has won more in her first 50 matches against top WTA opponents than Iga Swiatek (36 wins).
80: Swiatek is one of only two players with a match winning rate of 80% or higher at WTA 1000 events (80.4%), along with Serena Williams (84.1%).
