Iga Swiatek appeared to be a bit stunned when asked if she could take over a dominant player in the future as the Pole bluntly suggested that she has been doing exactly that for the past two years.
On Thursday, world No. 1 Swiatek ousted Elise Mertens 6-3 6-4 to reach the Stuttgart quarterfinal and put herself three wins away from winning another Stuttgart title. Since making her Stuttgart debut in 2022, the 22-year-old Pole is 9-0 at the tournament and is now bidding to win her third consecutive title.
But Stuttgart isn’t the only tournament where Swiatek has had success over the last two years as the 22-year-old Pole has won a total of 16 titles since the start of 2022 – the most on the WTA Tour. Of those 16 titles, three were Grand Slam victories and Swiatek also held a highly impressive 37-match winning streak in 2022.
After beating Mertens, Swiatek was told that there now seemed to be more consistency in women’s tennis and asked if she could “take over” as a dominant figure in the future.
“Well, the question is if I already did that for past two years, because I feel like I have been pretty dominant, and also Aryna has been, so we both kind of have shown that there is consistency on WTA. I remember when I was playing in 2020, 2021, I also got many…
