Iga Swiatek, the Pole who has nothing against her in women’s tennis, focuses on a Steffi Graf brand

Tennis fans have been asking the women’s circuit for a player who can dominate like the “Big Three” have done among the men. We need to go back to Serena Williams’ best moment to find a superiority in the WTA similar to that which Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have exercised for years and now it’s the Pole’s turn Iga Swiatek the one who has been looking down on everyone for a long time.

It’s in the rearview mirror Aryna Sabalenka number two in the world, Coco Gauff (3rd) now Elena Rybakina (4th), but the Pole’s consistency, and above all the irregularity of her main rivals, place her as the undisputed queen of tennis. Below there are other tennis players to fear such as Jessica Pegula (5th), Ons Jabeur (6th) and María Sakkari (9th) who are unable to sustain their good performances.

Meanwhile, the Japanese Naomi Osaka, Three times Grand Slam winner and one of those who has shown the most consistency in recent times, she is coming off a 15-month break after becoming a mother and her future is unknown. This is the panorama.

Swiatek, 22, rose to the top of the rankings on April 4, 2022 after the retirement of Australian Ashleigh Barty and since then it has been just eight weeks in which she left that privileged place, when Sabalenka finally took the throne from her. last year after reaching the US Open final.

The rest was all for the Pole, who accumulated an interesting number 95 weeks at the top, close to Lindsay Davenport’s 98 and Justin Henin’s 117. He is in tenth place in this statistic.

At his young age he has already done it 19 titles, among which four Grand Slams, eight WTA 1000s and the 2023 WTA Finals stand out. And this week in Miami he will try to join Federer, Djokovic and Steffi Graf as the only ones to have reached the title on more than one occasion. “Double Sun”That is, winning Indian Wells and Miami in the same season.

The Serbian achieved it four times (2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016), the Swiss three times (2005, 2006 and 2017) and the German twice (1994 and 1996). Swiatek, who got his double in 2022, comes from a champion in the California desert and could repeat to join this select group of legends.

“It’s not easy to come from Indian Wells and play here with so much humidity, but I have a good feeling and I’m happy with what I achieved at the beginning of this season,” said the world number one, who this year also won the WTA 1000 in Doha. She will make her debut this Friday at the Hard Rock Stadium against the Italian Camila Giorgi (108th) and she will seek victory to continue establishing herself as the best tennis player in the world.