Iga Swiatek is one Australian Open title away from completing a Career Slam

Carlos Alcaraz isn’t the only player who’ll try to complete their Career Slam at this year’s Australian Open.

Over on the women’s side, Iga Swiatek is in the exact same position, having already won four Roland Garros titles in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024, one US Open title in 2022 and, most recently, her first Wimbledon title in 2025.

She’s already the only active women’s player to win three of the four Grand Slam events, and she’ll chase the last piece of the puzzle in Melbourne starting next week.

If the six-time Grand Slam champion comes up a winner Down Under, she’ll become the 11th woman in tennis history—and the third woman this century, after Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova—with a Career Slam.

She would also become the first woman born in the 2000s, or even since 1988, to achieve the feat.

WOMEN TO COMPLETE THE CAREER SLAM (all-time, in chronological order):

• Maureen Connolly [at 1953 Roland Garros]
• Doris Hart [at 1954 US Open]
• Shirley Fry [at 1957 Australian Open]
• Margaret Court [at 1963 Wimbledon]
• Billie Jean King [at 1972 Roland Garros]
• Chris Evert [at 1982 Australian Open]
• Martina Navratilova [at 1983 US Open]
• Steffi Graf [at 1988 US Open]
• Serena Williams [at 2003 Australian Open]
• Maria Sharapova [at 2012 Roland Garros]

While Alcaraz’s best previous results in Melbourne are two quarterfinals, Swiatek has come a bit closer—she’s a two-time semifinalist at the Happy Slam, in 2022 and 2025.

And while her first trip to the final four four years ago ended abruptly to an on-fire Danielle Collins, 6-4, 6-1, she was literally one point away from the final last year, holding a match point up 6-5 in the third set but ultimately falling to Madison Keys, 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (8).

Keys went on to defeat Aryna Sabalenka for the title.