Serena Williams to Iga Swiatek: Who holds the record for the longest winning streak in WTA?

Serena Williams to Iga Swiatek: Who holds the record for the longest winning streak in WTA?

Serena Williams and Iga Swiatek

Iga Swiatek the polish international tennis is on a streak of winning 23 consecutive games. She is the third-youngest WTA player of the century to record a winning streak that long. With her title triumph at Stuttgart, she has now won 4 consecutive titles and is looking in great shape to extend her streak. But can the Pole go long enough to put herself amongst the greatest players in women’s tennis who have had huge winning streaks?

Who holds the record for the longest winning streak in WTA?

Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova is the player who holds the record for the longest winning streak in the history of WTA with a winning streak of 74 wins in 1984. She lost to Helena Sukova in the Australian Open semi-finals. Helena Sukova came from a set down and ended Martina’s domination.

The 5 longest winning streaks in the history

Venus and Serena Williams at the 2001 US Open Finals
Venus and Serena Williams at the 2001 US Open Finals
  • American Chris Evert has the fifth-longest winning streak in the WTA history. She won 55matches without any loss. She was also the world’s number 1 and this streak ended back in 1974.
  • After her Margret Court has the Longest streak of Winning 57 matches after this the Billie Jean King Cup put a stop to her in Indianapolis in 1972.
  • Martina Navratilova’s winning streak of 58 matches in 1986/87 comes at the third spot. The streak ended with Martina finishing runner-up at the 1987 Australian Open Final.
  • Steffi Graf finds herself at the No.2 spot with a whopping 66-match winning streak from 1989to 1990 which ended after she lost to Monica Seles in the Berlin Final.
  • Legendary Martina Navratilova won a mammoth 74 matches back-to-back in 1974 which puts her at the No.1 spot.

Amongst contemporary players, Serena Williams has a winning streak of 25 matches which Iga Swiatek could match if she wins a couple more matches. Victoria Azarenka also has a winning streak of 26 matches which is in Swiatek’s sight. But the major task for Iga will be to match the Williams sisters’ winning streak.

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Serena Williams won 34 consecutive matches in 2013 while Venus Williams won 35 consecutive matches in 2000. Iga Swiatek is also a possible name in the future for this list but for now, her first target should be crossing Venus and Serena.

https://youtu.be/hRKrG_asCIA

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