Iga Świątek

2016 to 2017: Junior career and early years

At 15 years of age, Iga Świątek claimed her first clay court singles title on the ITF Pro Circuit with a three-set victory over second seed Martina Di Giuseppe at the $15,000 Internazionali di Bergamo. To claim the second pro circuit singles title of her career Iga had to come through the qualifying rounds before powering through the rounds of the main event to reach the final without losing a set.^[4]

2018: Wimbledon Championships Junior singles title

Iga Świątek missed seven months after right ankle surgery in 2017, but made a strong return this season in both ITF and junior Grand Slam tournaments. At 17 years of age, Świątek together with her doubles partner Caty McNally beat Yuki Naito and Naho Sato in the French Open Junior Doubles final. This was Iga's first Grand Slam title. She also reached the junior singles semifinal and was very close to winning the match. After three sets, she lost to Caty McNally.

On 14 July 2018, Iga Świątek reached her first ever Grand Slam junior singles final in which she defeated Switzerland's Leonie Küng in straight sets thus achieving the biggest win of her career so far. On her way to the title she beat the No.1 seed Whitney Osuigwe in the first round and the 4th seed Wang Xinyu in the semi-final. Iga became the fourth Polish junior champion at Wimbledon after Alexandra Olsza and the Radwanska sisters^[5].

While her rivals were in New York, battling for the last junior Grand Slam title of the season, the 17-year-old Iga Świątek made great progress winning back-to-back $60,000 titles in Budapest and Montreux to grab 160 points to enter the Top 200 as the second youngest player after Amanda Anisimova^[6].

In October Iga competed at the third Summer Youth Olympic Games which were held in Buenos Aires^[7]. She qualified based on her ITF World Junior Rankings and seeded 3rd played singles, doubles and mixed tournaments in Tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. She won gold medal in doubles together with Kaja Juvan defeating in the final 6:7 (5:7), 7:5, 10:4 Yuki Naito and Naho Sato.^[8]

Iga Świątek will debut in her first WTA event in Auckland, which takes place at the beginning of January 2019. Following WTA Auckland Open she will go to Melbourne to play in the qualifying round of the Australian Open.

Singles: 7 (7 titles)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2016	ITF Stockholm, Sweden	15,000	Hard (i)	Laura-Ioana Andrei	6–4, 6–3
Win	2–0	Feb 2017	ITF Bergamo, Italy	15,000	Clay (i)	Martina di Giuseppe	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Win	3–0	May 2017	ITF Győr, Hungary	15,000	Clay	Gabriela Horáčková	6–2, 6–2
Win	4–0	Feb 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Britt Geukens	6–3, 6–1
Win	5–0	Apr 2018	ITF Pelham, United States	25,000	Clay	Allie Kiick	6–2, 6–0
Win	6–0	Sep 2018	ITF Budapest, Hungary	60,000	Clay	Katarina Zavatska	6–2, 6–2
Win	7–0	Sep 2018	ITF Montreux, Switzerland	60,000	Clay	Kimberley Zimmermann	6–2, 6–2

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Constanze Stepan	Anna Morgina Valeriya Solovyeva	4–6, 2–6

Girls' Singles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2018	Wimbledon	Grass	Leonie Küng	6–4, 6–2

Girls' Doubles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2017	Australian Open	Hard	Maja Chwalińska	Bianca Andreescu Carson Branstine	1–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	2018	French Open	Clay	Caty McNally	Yuki Naito Naho Sato	6–2, 7–5

Singles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	26 April 2015	Nottingham, Great Britain	Hard	Emily Smith	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	2.	24 May 2015	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Johana Markova	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	20 June 2015	Riga, Latvia	Clay	Paulina Bakaite	6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	1.	6 September 2015	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Anastasia Zarytska	5–7, 1–6
Winner	4.	3 September 2016	Repentigny, Canada	Hard	Olga Danilović	3–6, 2–0 ret.
Winner	5.	19 January 2017	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Marta Kostyuk	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	28 May 2017	Milan, Italy	Clay	Elena Rybakina	6–1, 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Winner	6.	14 July 2018	Wimbledon	Grass	Leonie Küng	6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	20 June 2015	Riga, Latvia	Clay	Wiktoria Rutkowska	Ninel Batalova Hanna Sokal	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	6 September 2015	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Daria Kuczer	Barbora Matusova Eva Marie Voracek	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Winner	2.	19 January 2017	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Maja Chwalińska	Gabriella Da Silva Fick Kaitlin Staines	3–6, 6–4, 10–7
Runner-up	2.	27 January 2017	Australian Open	Hard	Maja Chwalińska	Bianca Andreescu Carson Branstine	1–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	3.	8 June 2018	French Open	Clay	Caty McNally	Yuki Naito Naho Sato	6–2, 7–5

Team competition: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	No.	Date	Team competition	Surface	Partner/Team	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	2 October 2016	Junior Fed Cup, Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Maja Chwalińska Stefania Rogozińska-Dzik	Amanda Anisimova Claire Liu Caty McNally	2–1