‘Unreal numbers’ Iga Swiatek takes a ground-breaking lead at the top of the WTA Rankings
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World No. 1 Iga Swiatek is in the form of her life. You need to go back to the 2022 Dubai Tennis Championships in February to see her exit from a tournament before the finals. This kind of consistency, being constantly on the road and competing at the tour level had to be rewarded. No one else seems to be coming close to her in the foreseeable future.
Swiatek has outmaneuvered, outplayed and outclassed anyone who’s come her way over the past few months. A look at her performances in her recent tournaments, shouldn’t really make us believe that the disparity in points has been blown out of proportion. She won the Roland Garros, repeating what she had achieved in Paris as a teenager 2 years ago. Having played an inordinate amount of her tennis during her formative years on clay courts, it looks like she has just cracked the code of excelling in those physically demanding conditions.
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Before that, she downed the currently 2nd ranked Ons Jabeur at the Italian Open. If we go further back to the Stuttgart Open, she picked the trophy there as well, brushing aside the big hitting Aryna Sabalenka in the finals of that event. She defeated 4-time major winner Naomi Osaka at the Miami Open final, just about a couple of weeks after winning the Indian Wells Open where she beat Maria Sakkari in the finals to pick one trophy of the Sunshine Double.
There is a gap of 4236 points between the top ranked Polish prodigy in Iga Swiatek (who sits at 8576 points) and the 2nd ranked player from Tunisia – Ons Jabeur. If this doesn’t instill much wonder or surprise in you, the next sentence definitely will. Between Ons Jabeur and the 464th ranked Erika Sema, there is a gap of 4235 points. This spreads some light on how far Swiatek seems to have reached, having just turned 21 last month.
However, as we enter into the Wimbledon, it’s a well documented fact that these surfaces don’t suit the Polish player as naturally as some of the others. That is going to be her next challenge as a player who’s been winning it all over the last few tournaments. In her press conferences she speaks about knowing that there will be days when she’d not perform as nicely as she has been doing, and that she must also be prepared for those times. How she responds to those obstacle remains to be seen.
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