Age when winning a tenth WTA 1000 title (since the format was introduced in 2009): Serena Williams - 32 years, 324 days Victoria Azarenka - 31 years, 29 days Iga Swiatek - 22 years, 352 days 🤯 via @OptaAce | @WTA
Iga Swiatek's recent domination helps her achieve incredible milestone
WTAMonday, 20 May 2024 at 11:00
Poland’s Iga Swiatek is having a fabulous season on the court. The 22-year-old started slowly, as she was knocked out of the Australian
Open after losing in the third round to Linda Noskova with a score of 3-6, 6-3,
6-4. However, since then, the reigning world number one has hardly put a foot wrong.
In her most recent outing, Swiatek defeated the world number
two Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka in the final of the Rome Open in straight sets
with a score of 6-2, 6-3 to lift the title. It was her second consecutive WTA
1000 event as she also won the Rome Open by beating Sabalenka in the final with
a score of 7-5, 4-6, 7-6. Besides that, Swiatek lifted the Qatar Open after
beating Elena Rybakina in the final and also won the WTA 1000 event at Indian
Wells after getting the better of Greece’s Maria Sakkari in the final.
Those performances have not gone unnoticed, as Swiatek has
achieved yet another milestone. She has now become the women player with more
ranking points since 2015. Currently, Swiatek has 11,695 ranking points. The
last time a women player had this many ranking points was nine years back when
Serena Williams had 12,721 points. While Swiatek might not be able to meet that tally in the near future, she definitely has a chance to improve ranking points when she takes the court in the upcoming French Open, where she will be defending her back-to-back titles.
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- That means all the quality women players will not be participating. Therefore, Iga is all that is remaining and she should have joined them.crissy26-07-2024
- She has been getting many things lately since hiring Brad Gilbert as a coach, including cupcake draws.crissy26-07-2024
- leave her alone - she's not strong enough physically - and with the disproportionate amount of attention she is being destroyed mentally as well.Juliet20-07-2024
- oh no mention of the absence of Belinda Bencic - she is the defending Gold medalistJuliet20-07-2024
- What about the current womens Olympic Gold medallist - Belinda Bencic? she will be missing - not worth a mention? hmmm....Juliet20-07-2024
