Happy birthday, Iga! 23 stats for Swiatek’s 23rd birthday

World No. 1 Iga Swiatek turns 23 today, and to mark the occasion, here’s a stat for all 23 of her birthdays so far!

1 is for No. 1, where she’s spending her 105th and 106 career weeks during the two weeks of Roland Garros. And even though she’s defending the title, her points lead at No. 1 is so big that she’s guaranteed to keep the top ranking no matter how she does in Paris this year.

2 is for her two year-end No. 1 finishes in 2022 and 2023. She’s the youngest woman to record back-to-back No. 1 finishes since Caroline Wozniacki in 2010 and 2011.

3 is for her three Roland Garros titles. Her first one in 2020 was a big surprise—she was ranked No. 54 and unseeded—but her last two titles in 2022 and 2023 were no surprise at all, as she went into both of them as No. 1.

4 is for her 4-0 record in Grand Slam finals. In addition to her three Roland Garros titles, she also won the US Open in 2022. She’s one of only four players in the Open Era to win their first four major finals in a row, after Monica Seles (six), Roger Federer (seven) and Naomi Osaka (also four).

5 is for her five WTA 500 titles. An incredible 20 of her 21 career WTA titles have come at the WTA 500 level or higher, including five WTA 500s at Adelaide in 2021, Stuttgart and San Diego in 2022 and Doha and Stuttgart in 2023.

6 is for winning six WTA titles in a row during her 37-match winning streak in 2022. She won Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, Rome and Roland Garros all in a row to become the first player to win six straight WTA titles since Justine Henin between 2007 and 2008.

7 is for winning her first seven sets in a row in Grand Slam finals. She’s the only woman in the Open Era to do that, winning her first three major finals in straight sets and then the first set of her 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Karolina Muchova in the 2023 Roland Garros final.

8 is for winning her last eight WTA finals in a row. Her longest winning streak in WTA finals is 10 in a row, but the one she’s currently on—which includes Roland Garros, Warsaw, Beijing and the WTA Finals last year and Doha, Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome this year—could surpass it.

9 is for already having the ninth-most career weeks at No. 1 in WTA rankings history. She only trails Steffi Graf (377), Martina Navratilova (332), Serena Williams (319), Chris Evert (260), Martina Hingis (209), Seles (178), Ashleigh Barty (121) and Henin (117).

10 is for her 10 WTA 1000 titles. She’s won four this year alone at Doha, Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome. Her first six came at Rome in 2021, Doha, Indian Wells, Miami and Rome in 2022 and Beijing in 2023.

11 is for beating 11 straight Grand Slam champions in straight sets between last October and this April. She went 11-0 against major winners in that six-month span, and 22-0 in sets—the first woman to achieve that since Serena between 2010 Wimbledon and the 2012 US Open.

12 is for her current 12-match winning streak in Doha, the first WTA event she’s won three years in a row. She could add Roland Garros to the three-in-a-row list next weekend…

13 is for the 13 WTA titles she’s won as No. 1. That’s five in 2022 (Stuttgart, Rome, Roland Garros, US Open and San Diego), four in 2023 (Doha, Stuttgart, Roland Garros and Warsaw) and her four so far in 2024.

14 is for her current 14-match winning streak going into the third round of Roland Garros. She went 6-0 en route to the title in Madrid, 6-0 en route to the title in Rome and is 2-0 so far in Paris.

15 is for her 15-match winning streak against Top 10 players in 2022. She went 15-0 against the elite across a 10-month span in 2022, with four wins over Aryna Sabalenka, two wins each over Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Ons Jabeur and Maria Sakkari and one each against Caroline Garcia, Anett Kontaveit and Daria Kasatkina.

16 is for her current 16-match winning streak at Roland Garros. She went 7-0 to win the 2022 title, 7-0 to win the 2023 title and is 2-0 so far in 2024.

17 is for reaching the third round or better at the last 17 Grand Slams in a row. That’s every single major since the start of 2020—she’s the only woman to do that.

18 is for her 18-match winning streak between Beijing last year and the Australian Open this year. It was the second-longest winning streak of her career, after her 37-match winning streak from 2022 (which is too big for this list).

19 is for winning her first Grand Slam title as a 19-year-old at Roland Garros in 2020. She was the youngest woman to lift the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen since an 18-year-old Seles in 1992.

20 is for dropping just 20 games en route to the WTA Finals title last year. It was the fewest games anyone has lost en route to the season-ending title since it switched to round-robin format in 2003, shattering Serena’s previous record of 32 games lost in 2012.

21 is for her 21 career WTA titles. She’s the only player born in the 2000s, male or female, to have already won 20 or more tour-level titles in their career—Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are tied for next-most with 13 each.

22 is for the 22 bagels she’s recorded at Grand Slams so far in her career. That’s two at the Australian Open, three at Wimbledon, six at the US Open and 11 at Roland Garros.

And finally, 23 is for all of the records she could potentially break as a 23-year-old over the next 12 months, or maybe even the next 10 days...