10 incredible things Iga Swiatek achieved by winning Roland Garros this year

By winning Roland Garros for the fourth time in her career—2020, 2022, 2023 and now 2024—Iga Swiatek just keeps writing her name deeper and deeper into the tennis history books.

Here are 10 things she achieved with her latest triumph in Paris:

At 23, she’s the youngest woman in the Open Era to win four Roland Garros titles. And having also won the US Open in 2022, she's the youngest woman to win five overall Grand Slam titles since Serena Williams, who was 21 when she won her fifth at the 2003 Australian Open (the last leg of the first Serena Slam).

She’s just the third woman in the Open Era to win Roland Garros three years in a row, after Monica Seles (1990-1992) and Justine Henin (2005-2007). And she’s the first woman to win any major three years in a row since Serena at the US Open (2012-2014).

She’s the first woman in the Open Era to win Roland Garros three years in a row as the No. 1 seed. And she’s just the fourth woman in the Open Era to do that at any major, after Chris Evert at the US Open (1975-1977), Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon (1982-1987) and Steffi Graf at the Australian Open (1988-1990).

She’s now 5-0 in her career in Grand Slam finals. She’s the first woman to win her first five in a row since Seles, who won her first six in a row between Roland Garros in 1990 and 1992.

She’s also won her last nine overall finals in a row. She hasn’t lost a final in over a year, since finishing runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka at the WTA 1000 in Madrid last May. She’s won an incredible 22 of the 26 tour-level finals she’s played in her career.

Having fought off a match point against Naomi Osaka in the second round, she became the 13th woman in the Open Era to save a match point en route to winning a major. And just the third woman to do it in one of the first two rounds of a major, after Angelique Kerber at the 2016 Australian Open (saved match point in the first round) and Caroline Wozniacki at the 2018 Australian Open (saved match points in the second round).

She’s the first player to win Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros in the same year since 2013. Two fellow legends did it that year—Serena on the women’s side, Rafael Nadal on the men’s side.

She’s now won her last 19 matches in a row, the second-longest winning streak of her career. Her longest was that monster 37-match winning streak in 2022. Until now, her second-longest was an 18-match winning streak between 2023 and 2024.

With her prize money cheque of 2.4 million Euros, she surpassed $30 million in career prize money. She’s just the ninth woman in WTA history to reach that prize money milestone, and first woman born in the 2000s to do it (or even born in 1992 or later).

And finally, even though she was defending the maximum 2,000 points from winning the title the year before, she’s actually increased her lead at No. 1. She went into Roland Garros this year with a 3,557-point lead over then-No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka and leaves with a 3,707-point lead over now-No. 2 Coco Gauff.

With the only title she won between mid-June and October last year being a WTA 250, the gap could grow even bigger soon…