2024 French Open, Poland’s Iga Swiatek Reigns, Where The Young Played Brilliantly
FCI Staff Writer Sacramento 
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June 14, 2024,
When you accomplish great things, you mark time for yourself and others.
In their personal lives, many people will remember where they were, what they were doing and how they were feeling when you accomplished your incredible historical feat.
As reported by bbc.com, “By beating Paolini on Saturday, Swiatek has become the youngest woman to win four French Open titles in the Open era.”
Simply amazing.
Iga is a Polish professional tennis player currently ranked as the world No. 1 in women’s singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), having held the position for a total of 107 weeks.
Ms. Świątek is a five-time major singles champion, having won the French Open four times and the US Open once. She is the first player representing Poland to win a major singles title.
Drumroll please.
Iga has won a total of 22 singles titles, including the 2023 WTA Finals and ten WTA 1000 titles.
During her French Open title run in 2020, Świątek did not lose more than five games in any singles match. She entered the top ten of the WTA rankings for the first time in May 2021 after winning the Italian Open.
Our super star has won 21 matches in a row at the French Open – the fourth-longest streak in women’s singles in the Open era. She has won 35 of her 37 matches at Roland Garros and she has not lost in Paris since 2021.
Wouldn’t you agree that is incredibly great?
The 2024 French Open was filled with other great moments. And future champions.
You have to start with the runner up, Italy’s Jasmine Paolini. Charging in to the finals, she had an incredible 2024 French Open run.
Jasmine is an Italian professional tennis player who has achieved a career-high WTA ranking of No. 7 in singles, achieved on June 10, 2024, and No. 14 in doubles, achieved on June 10, 2024.
Our luminary has won two singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including a WTA 1000 singles title at the 2024 Dubai Tennis Championships. She has also won two singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with nine titles in singles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.
Drum roll please.
She is the current Italian No. 1 female player.
What a fairytale run.
The team at telegraph.co.uk speaks to that, “At 28, Paolini is the first Italian woman to reach a Grand Slam final since the 2015 US Open.”
Wonderful.
We absolutely look forward to Jasmine competing at the 2024 US Open.
She will have good company. Which raises a question.
When you are a teenager, is 16 the only year that is sweet? If you are following the results that Mirra Andreeva achieved at the 2024 French Open, 17 is not only sweet, it is super sweet.
The global news source foxnews.com praises, “Mirra Andreeva made history on Wednesday when she defeated top-ranked tennis pro Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals at the French Open to become the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist in nearly 30 years.”
What makes her achievement even more remarkable is that Mirra is unseeded.
Let’s meet her.
Mirra has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 23, attained on June 10, 2024. Our brilliant teenager achieved her best major result to date at the 2024 French Open by reaching the semifinals at the age of 17.
Major congrats are in order.
There’s more. Time for a little bit of history.
Mirra made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2022 Jasmin Open, after receiving a wildcard for the singles event. In January 2023, Ms. Andreeva reached the final of the girls’ singles at the Australian Open.
More firsts.
At 15 years of age, ranked No. 194, Mirra received a wild card into the main draw of the WTA 1000 Madrid Open and won her first WTA Tour match against Leylah Fernandez. With this victory, she became the third youngest player to win a main-draw match at a WTA 1000 tournament, behind only Coco Gauff and CiCi Bellis.
Mirra was only the second 15-year-old to defeat a top-50 opponent at a WTA 1000 tournament, with Bellis being the first in 2015. Next, she defeated 13th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia, for her first top-20 win, to reach the third round, becoming the seventh player to defeat a top-20 opponent before the age of 16 in the 21st century.
Pretty amazing stats, true?
Finally (for now), on her 16th birthday, she recorded her 16th professional win against another top-20 player, 17th seed Magda Linette, to reach the round of 16.
We are absolutely looking forward to her play at the 2024 US Open. Given her power and tenacity, we feel she has a legitimate chance to compete into the second week and make a deep run.
One more.
America’s Coco Gauff is surging.
As posted by talksport.com, “The 20-year-old American star is now No. 2 in the world, only trailing Poland’s Iga Swiatek. For the first time in the sport’s history, the top-two players in the ATP and WTA rankings were all born in the 2000s.”
Let’s see what Coco has been up to as she goes up, up and up.
Cori Dionne “Coco” Gauff has won seven career singles titles, including the 2023 US Open, and nine career doubles titles, including the 2024 French Open. Coco has career-high rankings of world No. 2 in singles and of world No. 1 in doubles by the WTA.
Extremely impressive.
That’s just for starters.
Ms. Gauff made her WTA Tour debut in March 2019 at the Miami Open at the young age of 15.
She received a wildcard into the qualifying draw at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, where she became the youngest player in the tournament’s history to qualify for the main draw.
She reached her first major singles final at the 2022 French Open. In 2023, our American super star won her first WTA 1000 title at the Cincinnati Open and first major singles title at the US Open.
Ah, the mighty US Open. Can Coco repeat in 2024?
Fans are super excited around the world to find out.
So, this year’s 2024 French Open was Sweet.
Sweetened with young women who are continuing to surge.
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/c4nn48816j1o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga_%C5%9Awi%C4%85tek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmine_Paolini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_Andreeva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Gauff
https://talksport.com/sport/1916092/coco-gauff-tennis-carlos-alcaraz-iga-swiatek-jannik-sinner/
https://www.fciwomenswrestling2.com
https://www.fcielitecompetitor.com/
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