By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday May 17, 2022
Iga Swiatek has been absolutely tearing up the WTA Tour since February, when she lost her last match in Dubai to Jelena Ostapenko. Since that time the Pole, still 20 years of age for a few more days, has reeled off five successive titles and 28 consecutive victories to improve to 37-3 on the season.
While we have a week to catch our breath before Roland-Garros begins, let’s have a look at some of the remarkable numbers that Swiatek has piled up on her side of the ledger.
28 - Swiatek’s streak is the fourth longest on the WTA Tour since 2000. If the World No.1 can catch the Roland Garros title without a walkover she’d be tied for the longest win streak since 2000 with Venus Williams.
Venus Williams | 35 | 2000
Serena Williams | 34 | 2013
Justine Henin | 32 | 2008
11-0 - Swiatek has not lost a single match since turning No.1 in the world on April 4. She has won two Billie Jean King Cup matches, four at Stuttgart, and five at Rome.
11-0 - Swiatek has gone 11-0 vs the Top-20 during her streak.
7-0 - A quarter of Swiatek’s wins during her 28-match streak have come against the Top-10.
13 - Swiatek has won 13 bagel sets this season – no one else on the tour has registered more than four.
8 - Swiatek has won her last eight WTA finals, without dropping a set (five during the streak).
28 - Remarkably, Swiatek has lost 28 games in those eight finals, and only dropped more than two games in a set three times.
21 - Number of games Swiatek lost at Rome last week, which is the lowest total at Rome since Serena Williams in 2013.
4 - Number of times Swiatek has won after dropping the first set during her streak. She won three times in succession from a set down at Indian Wells, against Anhelina Kalinina, Clara Tauson and Angelique Kerber.
5 - Number of sets Swiatek has lost during the streak. In addition to Kalinina, Tauson and Kerber, Viktorija Golubic and Luidmila Samsonova have taken sets from the Pole.
150 - Number of games Swiatek has lost during the streak, an average of 5.36 per match.
53.85 - Average rank of opponent faced during the streak.
7 - Number of Grand Slam champions defeated during the streak - Andreescu, Raducanu, Halep, Osaka, Azarenka, Kvitova and Kerber.
6 - Number of times Swiatek did not drop serve once in a match during the streak.
:56 - Shortest victory, in elapsed time, of the streak, against Madison Keys at Indian Wells (6-1, 6-0).
3:03 - Longest victory, in elapsed time, of the streak, against Liudmila Samsonova in Stuttgart (6-7(4), 6-4, 7-5).