Tennis fans asked the women’s circuit for a player who could dominate like the “Big Three” did among men. You have to go back to Serena Williams’ best moment to find in the WTA a superiority similar to that which Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic exercised for years and now it is the Polish Every Swiatek the one who has been looking at everyone from above for a long time.
He has in the rearview mirror Aryna Sabalenka, the number two in the world, Coco Gauff (3rd) now Elena Rybakina (4th), but the consistency of the Pole, and especially the irregularity of her main rivals, place her as the undisputed queen of tennis. Below are other tennis players to be feared such as Jessica Pegula (5th), Ons Jabeur (6th) and María Sakkari (9th) who also fail to sustain her good performances.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Naomi Osaka, triple Grand Slam winner and one of those who has shown the greatest consistency in recent times, she comes from a 15-month break after becoming a mother and her future is unknown. This is the panorama.
Swiatek, 22, rose to first place in the ranking on April 4, 2022 after the retirement of Australian Ashleigh Barty and since then there have been just eight weeks in which she left that privileged place, when Sabalenka took the throne from her at the end. last year after reaching the final of the US Open.
The rest was all for the Polish woman, who has accumulated an interesting number of 95 weeks at the top, close to Lindsay Davenport’s 98 and Justin Henin’s 117. He is in tenth place in this statistic.
Swiatek during the Indian Wells final, which he beat Sakkari. Photo: Clive Brunskill/AFP
At his young age he already has 19 titles, among which four Grand Slams, eight WTA 1000 and the WTA Finals 2023 stand out. And this week in Miami he will seek to join Federer, Djokovic and Steffi Graf as the only ones who have achieved the title on more than one occasion. “Sunshine Double”That is, winning in 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 had her double in 2022, comes from being 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 also won this year’s WTA 1000 in Doha. She will debut this Friday at the Hard Rock Stadium against the Italian Camila Giorgi (108°) and will look for a victory to continue establishing herself as the best tennis player in the world.
2024-03-22 11:39:13
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