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Iga Swiatek She is an all-round tennis player. With her victory at Wimbledon in 2025, the number two of the ranking WTA He has shown that he is capable of performing on any track. In fact, he has won a Grand Slam on every surface, and the only one missing is the Open the Australia. If she achieves it, she would become the eleventh woman to complete the Career Grand Slam, and the first since Maria Sharapova.
In an interview with CLAYIga has spoken about the pressure that this incentive entails. Swiatek has had a difficult year, and yet she has won a WTA 1000 and a Grand Slam that has allowed her to stay within 2,500 points of Aryna Sabalenka. At this year’s Australian Open, the Pole suffered a tough defeat against Madison Keys in the semifinals (7-5 1-6 6-7) in which she managed to have a match point, so facing 2026 she is going with the idea of redeeming herself.
However, Iga does not want to put more stones on his backpack, and in the midst of his preparation for the new season he has confessed that he does not see himself with the trophy at this point. “Most of the incredible things he has achieved have come when I didn’t expect them and I wasn’t concentrating on them. I’m not one of those who imagine having a trophy, I don’t think it gives me much discipline at work, so I prefer focus on the process“he stated.
The idea of making history is present, but taking into account the mental problems that he has suffered in 2025, he prefers to go with another chip so that the results arrive on their own. “Obviously it’s something I dream about and something I want to happen one day, but I’m not going to come to Melbourne and think about it every day. The key is to focus well on pre-season. But yes, without a doubt, it would be a dream come true“, he concluded.
Iga Swiatek could be the eleventh tennis player on a historical list
If she were to become champion of the first Grand Slam of the year, Swiatek would not only complete the Career Grand Slam, but would enter a prestigious list Only suitable for a select few. In fact, to date only ten tennis players on the women’s circuit can boast of having won the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open.
During the first stage of the tennis circuit, before the Open era, Doris Hart, Mauren Connolly y Shirley Fry They were the first to achieve this feat. Later came a time of rivalries that overshadowed the rest of the circuit, as was the case with Margaret Court y Billie Jean-King and, later, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. The four achieved the Career Grand Slam by pushing each other to success.
Later the figure of Steffi Grafwho in addition to winning the four Grand Slams, became the first person capable of doing so in the same year. Finally, the two most recent successes are those of Serena Williams y Maria Sharapovawhich was the last to achieve it in 2012. 14 years later it will be Iga who will have it in her power to make history, although to do so she will have to overcome the barrier of the semifinals, since she has never reached the final in the ‘Major of the Antipodes’.
