Iga Swiatek earns her first WTA Fan Favourite title - UBITENNIS

Iga Swiatek earns her first WTA Fan Favourite title

By sampaolo
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This year’s Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek earned her first WTA Fan Favourite title after a memorable 2020 season in which she claimed her maiden Grand Slam title at Roland Garros. Swiatek becomes the second Polish player to be voted WTA Fan Favourite player. 

Swiatek has followed in the footsteps of her compatriot Agnieszka Radwanka, who won the WTA Fan Favourite title six times. Iga breaks former world number 1 Simona Halep’s streak of three consecutive WTA Fan Favourite titles. 

The 19-year-old Polish player, who won the 2018 Wimbledon Junior title, grabbed the headlines at last October’s Roland Garros where she claimed her first Grand Slam title after dropping just 23 games in the whole tournament. 

The number of games she lost in total during the tournament was tied for the second-lowest among French Open singles champions behind the 20 games Steffi Graf lost in 1988.

She has also becmme the youngest women’s singles champion at the French Open since Monica Seles in 1992. 

When Swiatek entered the French Open, she was ranked world number 54. After her triumph in the French capital she rose to number 17. The Polish teenager beat Marketa Vondrousova in the opening round and top seed Simona Halep, who was on a 17-match win streak. Swiatek went on to beat Sofia Kenin in the final to become the lowest ranked French Open champion in the history of the WTA Ranking. Swiatek was the first Polish player to reach a Grand Slam final since Agnieszka Radwanska at Wimbledon in 2012. 

Swiatek also reached the semifinal in the doubles tournament teaming up with Nicole Melichar. 

Swiatek won over 50% of her fans’ vote beating fellow nominees Coco Gauff, Daria Gavrilova and Daria Kasatkina. 

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