Iga Swiatek has managed to lay the earth at her feet. The Pole, winner of her third Roland Garros, her fourth Grand Slam, thus consolidates her status as the best tennis player of the moment, with a very complete game that bears fruit on clay.
At the age of 22, Suzanne Lenglen, the youngest tennis player to collect three cups since Moncia Seles, has already managed to carve out a place for herself as a legend on a women’s circuit characterized by volatility. Swiatek is the first player to repeat three wins since Serena Williams in 2015 and the first to record two wins since Belgium’s Justine Henin in 2006, assuming hegemony was slow to take off.
The one from Warsaw has 63 weeks as No. 1 to his name and 61 Grand Slam wins before just 13 losses, the first to rack up so many major tournament wins since Williams, making him the figure to beat in all the tournaments he has played. plays.
Over the years, the young admirer of Rafa Nadal, who landed in 2020 slightly dazed by the grandeur of the tournament, has become his great figure, able to master all the details.
“As the game goes on, I feel less pressure,” Swiatek assured before playing the semifinal against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad, not knowing that the last two steps would be the most compromised.
Because the Pole still has some progress to make in terms of controlling her emotions, as she herself admits, a pending issue that comes at a very young age, when after winning the Wimbledon junior final in 2018, she discovered many lights on her back .
Studying, training and competing at the highest level was too much for this AC/DC and Pink Floyd fan who usually hits the dance floor to the chords of Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the jungle.”
WARRIOR ON EARTH
When she steps on clay, Swiatek becomes a warrior who can combine great physical strength with tremendous tactical intelligence.
Thus he won his first Grand Slam in Paris, like his admired Nadal, at the age of 17 when he started it and 18 when he finished it, since he meets on May 31, in the middle of the tournament, three days before the Mallorcan .
The battle against the pressure killed her the following year, when she came in as the big favorite after a win in Rome, but went down in the quarter-finals with a bang against the Greek Maria Sakkari.
Lesson learned on the third attempt, as he landed in Paris on a record winning streak (which he finally stopped at 37 when he fell at Wimbledon) to lift his second trophy without a shake.
After winning her third Grand Slam in the United States, she fell to Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina at the Australian Open in the round of 16 and arrived at Roland Garros with doubts, but contact with the clay court in Paris revived her ambition .
Swiatek has learned to live with pressure, which makes him a winning machine.
The daughter of a paddler who played in the rowing final at the 1988 Olympic Games, she devoted herself to tennis with the ambition of winning over her sister, who was the pioneer in the family with a racket in her hands.
A fan of sailing, it had become a sports psychologist with former captain Daria Abramowicz, with whom she managed to control her nerves.
Very discreet when it comes to her private life, not very present on social networks for a player her age, Swiatek has broken her silence to refer to matters in the international sphere, such as the war in Ukraine.
After criticism that the tennis bodies were a bit chilly about it, a bow in Ukraine’s colors adorns the cap she uses to pop onto the court in a clear message from the world tennis leader.
Source: El heraldo
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