Iga Świątek shines with historic French Open triumph
Iga Świątek is on vacation, but the dust from her recently concluded season has yet to settle. The American site tennis.com highlighted the remarkable accomplishment of the Polish player in 2024, an achievement not seen in over 40 years.
9:56 AM EST, November 27, 2024
Iga Świątek recently thanked herself and her coaching staff for another year of hard work before heading to the Maldives to recharge. The 23-year-old ended the season as the runner-up in the world rankings, just behind Aryna Sabalenka, yet she has plenty to celebrate in 2024.
Fans will particularly remember her medal won at the Olympic Games and her victory at the French Open. Journalists from the American site tennis.com highlighted that her triumph at the French Open made her the third woman in the Open Era to win three consecutive titles in Paris.
"Like Rafael Nadal, Iga Swiatek is starting to become synonymous with Roland Garros—she’s completely dominated the clay-court major this decade, winning it four of the last five years in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She was a quarterfinalist there in 2021," it reads.
Americans noted Iga Świątek's achievement
This isn't the end of the details regarding Iga Świątek's success. The Polish player is the first woman in the Open Era to win the French Open as the top seed.
Before Iga Świątek, Monica Seles (1990-1992) and Justine Henin (2005-2007) achieved three consecutive victories at Roland Garros, but Seles was the "number two" seed in 1990, and Henin entered as "number ten" in 2005 and then "number five" in the world rankings.
