Like Rafael Nadal, Iga Swiatek is starting to become synonymous with Roland Garros—she’s completely dominated the clay-court major this decade, winning it four of the last five years in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She was a quarterfinalist there in 2021.
By winning it the last three years in a row, she became just the third woman in the Open Era to three-peat in Paris, after Monica Seles (1990 to 1992) and Justine Henin (2005 to 2007).
But there’s even more.
Showing an incredible ability to perform her best under pressure, Swiatek is actually the first woman in the Open Era to win Roland Garros for three consecutive years as the No. 1 seed.
She’s come through some close battles on the terre battue the last two years, too, not only fighting off a match point to defeat Naomi Osaka in the second round this year, 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5, but also battling back from a break down in the third set to defeat Karolina Muchova in the final last year, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.
Seles was the No. 2 seed when she lifted her first trophy there in 1990, then the No. 1 seed the next two years. Henin was the No. 10 seed in 2005, the No. 5 seed in 2006 and the No. 1 seed in 2007.
