If winning a Grand Slam is the dream of any professional tennis player, winning three majors is quite a feat. At this point is Swiatek, number one in the world who, at 21, last night he won his third Grande In New York. Despite marking a before and after in tennis in her country (nobody to date had achieved a Grand Slam), the Polish career has done nothing but take off. With just turned 20, she rose to the top at Roland Garros, to repeat this year at the French Open and also complete this dream 2022 for her with another Grand Slam, the US Open.
Along with these achievements, Swiatek has been world number one for thirteen weeks, a fact that, although it seems irrelevant, it is not at all. And it is that, the Tennis Hall of fame (Hall of Fame), highest honor in the world of tennis, It has two essential requirements. at the time of being able to be a candidate to enter it: spend thirteen or more weeks at the top of the ranking and win three Grand Slams, which Iga has already achieved at an exceedingly premature age. The other option if any tennis player did not achieve these two assumptions would be to win five Grand Slams regardless of the ranking.
Currently, the Hall of Fame is made up of 257 tennis players from 26 different countries, something that is evidence of the rigorous selection process, inaugurated by Oliver Campbell (United States) in 1955, who would be joined by four other compatriots that same year. The country with the greatest representation is, precisely, the North American giant, which has up to 130 tennis players, followed by Australia, with 30. In this list you can find the most recognized personalities and myths in the world of tennis, including six Spaniards: Areyzaga, Manolo Santana, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Andrés Gimeno, Manuel Orantes and Conchita Martínez, included in 2020. To this list, Rafa Nadal will join almost certainlyonce five years have elapsed since its withdrawal, another of the necessary conditions to enter.
This is why the current number one in the world, who presumably, It will continue to be so for several more weeks, it is already a candidate to occupy a position once the stipulated time has passed by the institution (five years). All of this will happen if you manage to get through the meticulous introduction process, which usually lasts about a year, since you have to go through three phases to be included. in this selection The general public has an important role, in the first instance, together with the global tennis community and later, the Official Group of Voters will be the one who has most of the weight in this decision. With all these factors, Iga Swiatek has become a contender for a seat in the Tennis Hall of Fame.
