Iga Swiatek biography, age, family, career, kids, boyfriend
Iga Natalia Świątek (born 31 May 2001) also known as Iga Swiatek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
Świątek is a four-time major singles champion, having won the French Open in 2020, 2022 and 2023 and the US Open in 2022.
She is the first player representing Poland to win a major singles title. She has won a total of 14 WTA Tour-level titles.
Świątek’s father Tomasz is a retired Olympic rower. As a junior, Świątek was the 2018 French Open girls’ doubles champion alongside Caty McNally and the 2018 Wimbledon girls’ singles champion.
Świątek began playing regularly on the WTA Tour in 2019 and entered the top 50 at 18 years old after her maiden WTA final and a fourth-round appearance at the 2019 French Open.
Early life and background
Iga Świątek was born on 31 May 2001 in Warsaw to Dorota and Tomasz Świątek. Her father is a former rower who competed in the men’s quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Her mother is an orthodontist. She has a sister Agata who is about three years older and is a dentist.
Świątek’s father wanted his daughters to become competitive athletes and preferred they take up an individual sport rather than a team sport to have better control of their chances of success. Agata initially started out as a swimmer, but switched to tennis after she had issues with swimming.
Iga followed her sister into tennis because she wanted to beat her and also because she wanted to be more like her. Agata briefly competed on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2013 at about 15 years old, but stopped playing due to injury troubles. Iga trained at Mera Warsaw as a 14-year-old before later moving to Legia Warsaw.
Iga Swiatek’s career
Świątek reached a career-high ranking of No. 5 as a junior. She began competing in ITF Junior Circuit events in 2015 and won back-to-back low-level Grade 4 titles in April and May at age 13.
Before the end of the year, she moved up to Grade 2 events and finished runner-up in both singles and doubles at the Czech Junior Open. Świątek made her junior Grand Slam debut in 2016 at the French Open, reaching the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles.
She followed this up with her best junior title to date at the Grade 1 Canadian Open Junior Championships, defeating Olga Danilović in the final.
Iga Swiatek’s wins
Świątek had a strong first half of 2017. She won both the singles and doubles titles at the Grade 1 Traralgon Junior International.
Although she lost her opening round match at the Australian Open, she partnered with compatriot Maja Chwalińska to make her first final in a Grand Slam event, finishing runner-up in doubles to the North American team of Bianca Andreescu and Carson Branstine.
She then reached her first Grade A singles final at the Trofeo Bonfiglio, losing to Elena Rybakina. Her season came to an end after another quarterfinal at the French Open, after which she had right ankle surgery that kept her out for seven months.
Iga Swiatek’s family
Świątek is a cat lover and owns a black female cat named Grappa. She enjoys reading novels and listening to music. Before her matches, she listens to rock music, especially Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and AC/DC.
She listens to alternative music, jazz, soul and pop in her spare time. She is also a fan of Taylor Swift. In an interview with Tennis Channel, she described Mikaela Shiffrin as a good role model and said she “really respects” her. She also mentioned she’s a fan of actress Sandra Bullock and her films. Besides being a successful sportswoman Świątek was always known as an excellent and diligent student in primary and high school.
Iga Swiatek’s championship
Despite her tour schedules she always studied during the tournaments before coming back to school in person to pass the tests. Świątek before her success at the French Open in 2020 had finished her high school with excellent results in her high-school leaving examination, better known as Egzamin Maturalny, with 83% for Polish at a basic level, 100% for English at a basic level, 96% for Advanced English and 100% for Mathematics. She also admitted that she would like to go to university and study something related to mathematics later in life.
Świątek is a known book lover on the WTA tour and brings books to each tournament. For example, she read Murder on the Orient Express at the 2022 French Open and Gone with the Wind at the 2021 US Open. She openly admits that books help her concentrate on tournaments and help her not use her phone “for longer than needed”.
On 4 December 2021, Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court of Nigeria sentenced Olugbenga Ogunrinde to 10 months in prison for impersonating Świątek in a cyber fraud scheme. The prosecutor revealed that intelligence obtained from Ogunrinde’s email address indicated that he had been operating as Świątek and using her name and fame to scam money from foreigners.
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