Iga Swiatek: The Most Successful Female Tennis Player of 2023
Iga Swiatek has made history at Roland Garros again. Swiatek, who has experienced the joy of the cup on French soil exactly 4 times, has clinched the title of “queen of the clay court”. Of course, it was not a surprise that the world No. 1 was crowned. However, Swiatek’s journey to the cup has not been easy. On the way to victory, he was sometimes in tears, sometimes he was in despair.
The most memorable of these was the second-round match in which she shared the trumps with Naomi Osaka. The Japanese tennis player, so to speak, uprooted Swiatek. The world No 1 suffered huge disappointment when he lost the second set 6-1. Because the ambitious name of the clay court had lost a set 6-1 for the first time since 2019. Swiatek, moreover, had just fallen behind in his second round match. But the Polish tennis player did not give up, he made a magnificent comeback in the third set.
The difficult journey to victory
“I really thought I was going to be out of the tournament,” Swiatek said after her win.
Admitting that she cried the ambitious name of the clay court, she said, “What I felt on the court also affected me afterwards. I was happy to win, but I still felt like I was really on the edge of a cliff,” she said.
That was the moment when the experienced tennis player perhaps clung to the tournament in the strongest way. After that match, no one could get close to Swiatek.
Another mind-boggling story came from the fourth-round match. The Polish star performed in such a way that she made her opponent pay the price for the disappointment she experienced against Osaka.
Because Swiatek skipped the round without even giving Anastasia Potapova a game in a match that lasted only 40 minutes.
Moreover, Potapova was not an easy opponent for Swiatek either. Their history was based on their under-12 rivalry. Potapova was a name that had an extreme superiority over Swiatek, with whom she was struggling at that time. With this result, Swiatek both overcame her past traumas and played the shortest tour-level match of his career.
Swiatek proved once again that she is the “queen of the clay court”
On the final day, the breaths were held. World No. 1 Swiatek’s opponent was Jasmine Paolini, who reached the Roland Garros final for the first time in her career. When the Italian tennis player’s first test was against the queen of the clay court, defeat was inevitable. Swiatek reached the cup by winning the match 2-0 by establishing a great superiority over her opponent in 1 hour and 8 minutes.
Who is Iga Swiatek?
Iga Swiatek was born on May 31, 2001 in Warsaw, Poland. The 21-year-old became the youngest female tennis player to reach the top 10 of the WTA rankings, as well as the first Polish tennis player in history to win a Grand Slam tournament by winning the French Open in 2020. Also, the French Open title in question made Swiatek the youngest tennis player to win a Grand Slam in singles after Rafael Nadal, who won the French Open in 2005.
