Iga Swiatek

The top-ranked Swiatek has won seven titles in 2022, the most by a woman since Serena Williams in 2014.

But Swiatek took the last three points and soon was down on her back, a major champ again. Then, at 6-5 in the set, Swiatek held her first championship point as Jabeur served. When Jabeur missed a slice forehand early in the second set, she dropped her racket to reflect her despair. She ran her opponent this way and that, never letting Jabeur use the sorts of spins and variety that she's accustomed to. But she is 0-2 at that stage, being the runner-up at Wimbledon in July. And she arrived with a record of just 4-4 since her 37-match winning streak ended in July.

Swiatek, the world No. 1, beat Jabeur in straight sets to capture her first U.S. Open singles title. It is her third Grand Slam title and first on a surface ...

Jabeur was sending her back and forth across the baseline and held chances to break Swiatek’s serve in the next game and serve for the second set. Ahead of Saturday, she spoke of the lessons she had learned from that match and how she now knew ways to keep her emotions in check. Swiatek is so different, though, from the fragile player who won her first Grand Slam title as a teenager. She tried to match Swiatek’s power from the baseline. When she is on, she can mix jumping backhand drop shots with a dangerous forehand and a deceptively hard serve that she can land in the corners with nasty movement. She has spoken out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine more than any player who is not from Ukraine and has helped raise more than $2 million for relief efforts through her participation in tennis exhibitions, one of which she organized herself. In March, Ashleigh Barty of Australia, a three-time Grand Slam singles champion and the world No. She has won so many 6-0 sets this year — a “bagel” in tennis parlance — that the saying “Iga’s bakery” was coined. For Swiatek, the victory was the latest success in a season full of them. Open, where she was the first Polish woman to make the singles final. It was the third Grand Slam title of Swiatek’s brief career and her first on a surface other than clay. And now she is the first Polish woman to win three and the U.S.

Iga Swiatek affirmed her ranking as the No. 1 women's tennis player in the world, fighting off a spirited push from Ons Jabeur to win her third Grand Slam ...

Jabeur built a 5-4 lead in the tiebreak, with the crowd cheering her on, but Swiatek hit a forehand winner and benefitted when Jabeur hit two errant forehands. Swiatek, a two-time winner at the French Open, will earn $2.6 million for her triumphant run at Flushing Meadows. Throughout the tournament, Swiatek had said she was improving but hadn’t hit her peak. Jabeur, the first African woman to reach the U.S. Swiatek, 21, was relentless on her returns in the early going, keeping everything in play and hitting the ball deep enough to limit Jabeur’s chances to unleash her trademark creativity. Iga Swiatek of Poland affirmed her ranking as the No.

Eurosport's Kim Clijsters and Mats Wilander have paid tribute to Iga Swiatek after she won her third Grand Slam title at the US Open.

"She just looks comfortable as the world No. "She looks so hungry as well, all the time. So few players are able to do what she is doing. She can get so many balls back and she did that today." "She is so young, I think we forget that sometimes. It is a different level.

Iga Swiatek climbed yet another tennis peak on Saturday, winning her first US Open title and third Grand Slam by beating Ons Jabeur 6-2, 7-6.

There is little doubt that the Pole is a generational talent, and at 21, she still has so much more she can develop in her game. Swiatek’s view was endorsed by many other players, but to display that negativity so openly, and then to be in the kind of mindset to win a Grand Slam two weeks later, was indicative of how she can zone in on the big stage. The Pole has credited her psychologist Daria Abramowicz, whom she has been working with since she was 18, for instilling that killer instinct and toughness in her. The 21-year-old lost the first final of her career and has won each of her 10 since, without dropping a single set. Swiatek blew a 4-2 lead in that too, handing the initiative to Jabeur to take the match into a decider. She went on a 37-match winning streak in the summer, and is by far the most dominantly successful player of her generation.

In the final week of last season, Iga Swiatek's reward for a solid year was a place among the very best at the WTA Finals in Guadalajara. After the highs of ...

The tour will have to keep up with her or risk being left behind – and the rest of the world will soon come to know her name. Despite a season of dominance, the most ominous thought for Swiatek’s competitors is that she can still improve. She knew that doubts would continue to follow her on this surface and there was little she could do about it. She said that while she feels perfect on clay, she still did not have full faith in herself at the US Open. Her time in New York this year has been a clear example of the latter. Back then, it still felt like the improvements needed for her to command the hard courts as she had done clay would take some time.

If Jabeur wins, she will become the first African woman in the Open era to earn a Grand Slam singles title. If Swiatek prevails, it will be her third major ...

She has been a woman on a mission throughout the fortnight in New York and has been almost clinical en route to the final. Jabeur obviously has it in her to win on Saturday, but I think Swiatek's experience will come through and she'll win in straight sets. She has battled well and has found the moments to get herself in the final. The slice, the on-point first serves and the efficient way she adapts in tricky situations (coming back from a set down vs. D'Arcy Maine: Jabeur has been candid about how much she wanted to win the title at Wimbledon, and now, having been so close to a major title before, she has a much better understanding of what she needs to do and what to expect in a Grand Slam final. In their most recent meeting, in Rome, she broke Jabeur's serve five times to win the match in straight sets (6-2 6-2). If she can counter Jabeur's serve from the outset, and hold her own, she'll make Jabeur uncomfortable. Twice Swiatek has gone a set down at this year's US Open, and twice she has pulled it back to win in three. 1 -- but here at the US Open she has had to adjust her forehand to get used to the speed of the court with her far-Western grip and the lighter women's regular-duty balls. Aishwarya Kumar: Swiatek has had slow starts throughout this tournament, losing her serve early on (and on two occasions losing the first set). Tom Hamilton: If Jabeur is to win this, she needs to do it in straight sets. She also needs to use her drop shots and imaginative game so Swiatek cannot find rhythm.