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Iga Świątek

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#1 ·
This girl seems really good, and like she's improving super fast! I really noticed her a month ago because she made the SFs at U14 Junior Orange Bowl and nearly beat my girl Anastasia Potapova (who was the best world U14 player by a mile last year), actually had MPs against her and almost prevented her from making the U14 Eddie Herr + Jr Orange Bowl double! :p

Iga was born on May 31, 2001. She comes from Warsaw, lives in Raszyn.

Last year she won 2 G14s: Intime HEAD Junior Open in the Nederlands (on indoor hard) & Opalenica Cup in Poland (on clay); and she won a G16 on clay in Poland: Zabrze Cup. She didn't drop a single set on her way to these 3 wins. :)

She made the QFs of the U14 European Junior Championships in Czech Rep on clay last July. She was the 10th seed there and she beat good players in Leonie Kung in R2 and Selma Cadar in R3, before being thrashed by the top seed Olesya Pervushina (who made the final in the end) in QF, 1 & 0.

At Eddie Herr, she lost in R2 to Abigail Forbes, 7-5 2-6 2-6. :( But then as I mentioned in the beginning of the post, she had an amazing run 2 weeks later at the Junior Orange Bowl, with notable thrashings of Nicole Conard (2 & 1) in R3, Dalila Said (2 & 2) in R4 and Anna Brylin in QF (2 & 4), before folding in SF against the eventual champion Anastasia Potapova having MPs against her, 2-6 6-3 6-7(6). :sobbing: :hug:

Iga started her 2015 playing G4 Magnolia Cup in Poland. She was given a MDWC and got a good win in R1 over (3)Daniela Vukovic (#283), 6-2 7-5. :worship: Sadly she fell rather heavily to Csenge Furak in R2, 0 & 3. :tears: :hug: Furak reached the SFs afterwards. Iga already lost to Furak last September in the SF of a G16 in Poland, in straights too. :(

This week, Iga is playing the prestigious U14 tournament of Les Petits As de Tarbes in France. She's the 2nd seed there and she's through to the QFs after she beat Paula Joukanen 1 & 0 in R1, Hurricane Tyra Black 2-6 6-4 6-2 in R2 (great fight against a very dangerous unseeded and looming opponent :scared: :yeah:), and Sofiya Babych 2 & 3 in R3. :yeah:

She will face unseeded Helene Pellicano (who is a year younger) in QF tomorrow, good luck Iga! :cheer::cheer: Potapova is through to the QFs too, as the top seed. I'm hoping for a Nastya-Iga crazy final :lol: :hearts:
 
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#5 ·
:worship: for you that you made it with our Polish letters. ;)
:p I tried my best to do justice to players' cool names. :lol: How do you pronounce it? :D

Iga is the 1st one through to the SFs, she just beat Pellicano 6-2 7-5! :woohoo: :yeah: Had problems holding serve in the 2nd set but it was enough today :)
 
#11 ·
Sadly Iga fell to Danilovic, 4 & 0 :sad: :hug:

After blowing her lead and missing those important points in the 1st, she had a big meltdown and she completely let Danilovic back into the match, towards the end of the match Olga was really mauling her. :sobbing: It's a shame because I think Iga has some game and a real potential, Danilovic is a bigger girl with abig lefty game and is more of a shotmaker, but at the beginning of the match Iga was absorbing her power rather well and her counterpunching was working, she pushed Danilovic to UEs... But there was a huge contrast in attitudes and imo that's what made difference, Danilovic was carrying that uberconfident and intimidating attitude along the match, even when she was spraying badly whereas Iga basically folded pretty quick. From the reports on the match Eddie Herr SF against Potapova in which she had MPs, it looks like it was her nerves that lost her that match too, it may be a real letdown in her future career. Hopefully she works on this, it can be fixed imo, the sooner the better though. :(

It's been a great week though, head up! :smooch:
 
#13 ·
Thanks for opening this thread by the way, I was thinking about it when I saw her results at the U14 Orange Bowl but completely forgot it afterwards :yeah:
:hatoff: ;)

Despite a good start in the dubs final (going *3-0 up), Iga & Maja just lost against Novikova/Potapova, 4 & 3. :tears: :hug:

Tough day for Iga :awww:
 
#17 · (Edited)
Iga was part of Team Poland (with Maja Chwalinska and Stefania Rogozinska) at the U14 Tennis Europe Winter Cup last week-end. :)

They qualified for the final rounds that will take place in 10 days in Czech Rep, ending #1 of their group without losing a single match. They were the top seeds of Group C, beat the Netherlands 3-0 in QFs, (3)Slovakia 3-0 in SFs, and Sweden 3-0 in the final. :yeah:




 
#18 ·
So... it's Winter Cup finals time this week-end, and Poland is through to the final! :cheer:

They are the 2nd seeds in this final draw, they beat Italy 2-1 in R1 yesterday, and Turkey 2-0 today. :yeah: Iga won her both singles matches very easily: she beat Italian Elisabeta Cocciaretto 1 & 3 yesterday, and Turkish Azradeniz Comlek 3 & 1 today. :yeah:
Maja also won both her singles matches, the point they drop against Italy was Iga & Rogozinska losing the dubs match. :p And the dubs match against Turkey was cancelled.

Final against... top seeds Russia. :lol: The Russian Team is: Anastasia Potapova, Kamilla Rakhimova & Polina Krupchenko.

Very interesting to see how Iga is gonna do against Nastya tomorrow, after almost beating her at the OB. Also, I believe Maja can beat either Kamilla and Polina, so this could be a very close final! :bounce:
 
#19 ·
Well, with some good luck (Potapova caught the flu and was totally unable to play for the final :tears:) and a solid showing, Poland overwhelmed Russia 3-0 in the final, and won the Winter Cup! :bigclap:

Iga had no problem against Krupchenko, she won 2 & 2. :yeah: Then Maja got a good 7-5 6-1 win over Rakhimova (who made the SFs at Les Petits As), and Maja and Stefania beat Krupchenko/Rakhimova, 1-6 7-5 6-3 in doubles.

Congrats Team Poland!
 
#24 ·
Iga has just won her first juniors title in Nottingham (G4) :)
And it was her second official junior tournament only.

G4 Nottingham (Great Britain) - Outdoor Hard

> Singles:

R1: Iga Swiatek (POL) d. [Q] Thandiwe Mlambo (GBR) 6-3 6-0
R2: Iga Swiatek (POL) d. [16] Alexandra Hunter (GBR) 6-2 6-3
R3: Iga Swiatek (POL) d. [2] Lisa-Marie Rioux (JPN) 6-2 5-7 6-2
QF: Iga Swiatek (POL) d. Lenka Stara (SVK) 7-5 6-0
SF: Iga Swiatek (POL) d. Irina Cantos Siemers (GER) 6-2 6-4
F: Iga Swiatek (POL) d. [10] Emily Smith (GBR) 6-4 3-6 6-3 :cheer:


> Doubles:

R1: Pindelska/Swiatek (POL/POL) d. [8] Merico/Rushiti (SUI/SUI) 7-5 6-1
R2: Pindelska/Swiatek (POL/POL) d. Scarff/Taylor (GBR/GBR) 6-2 6-3
QF: [1] Drummy/Timotin (IRL/IRL) d. Pindelska/Swiatek (POL/POL) 7-5 6-4
 
#26 ·
She is 2nd in Tennis Europe 14&U rankings too. :)
I am pretty much reserved about Iga. She's a big girl and might just be too much for other juniors.
We already had such ones: Maciejewska at girls and Gresk at boys. Chwalinska as 6th in 14&U TE rankings as a girl with a height less than 150 cm is more impressive for me.
But I will keep an eye for Iga as well :)
 
#27 ·
We will see how she performs against better juniors anyway :) As far as I remember, Maciejewska didn't get consistent results. She managed to have good runs here and there but it was quite irregular. Iga played here her second juniors tournament only and won it without big troubles against players older than her (17 years old for many of them). I want to be optimistic :)
 
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