Iga Świątek's clay court reign continues with historic feat
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, which no one had managed to achieve in over 40 years.
Iga Świątek recently expressed gratitude to herself and the members of her coaching staff for another year of hard work, after which she travelled to the Maldives to recharge her batteries. The 23-year-old finished the season as the runner-up in the world rankings, behind Aryna Sabalenka, but she cannot complain about a lack of success in 2024.
Particularly memorable for fans will be her Olympic medal and French Open victory. Journalists of the American site tennis.com highlighted this, reminding us that thanks to her triumph at the French Open, the Polish player became the third woman in the Open Era to win three times in a row 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 is not the end of detailed information on Iga Świątek's success. It turns out that the Polish player is the first woman in the Open Era to win the French Open tournament as the number one seed.
Before Iga Świątek, Monica Seles (1990-1992) and Justine Henin (2005-2007) won Roland Garros three times in a row, but in 1990, Seles was seeded "number two," and Henin entered the competition in 2005 as "number ten" and then "number five" in the world rankings.
