Świątek's historic French Open triumph: Rewriting tennis history
Iga Świątek is on holiday, but the dust from her recently concluded season has yet to settle. The American site tennis.com highlighted the remarkable achievement of the Polish player in 2024, which no one had managed to accomplish in over 40 years.
Iga Świątek recently expressed her appreciation to herself and her coaching staff for another year of hard work, following which she went to the Maldives to recharge her batteries. The 23-year-old finished the season as the runner-up in the world rankings, just behind Aryna Sabalenka, but she certainly can't complain about a lack of success in 2024.
Fans will particularly remember her Olympic medal and her victory at the French Open. Journalists from the American site tennis.com emphasised 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 consecutively 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 consecutively, but, in 1990, Seles was "number two," and Henin in 2005 entered the competition as "number ten" and then "number five" in the world rankings.
