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Iga Swiatek has four major titles but something to prove on grass at Wimbledon

AP photo by Alberto Pezzali / Iga Swiatek returns to Jana Fett during the first round of Wimbledon in June 2022. Swiatek, 22, has four major championships, but three are on the red clay of Roland Garros at the French Open and the other was won on the hard courts of the U.S. Open. Although she was the junior girls' champion at Wimbledon in 2018, she has yet to get past the fourth round in the grass court major on the WTA Tour.
AP photo by Alberto Pezzali / Iga Swiatek returns to Jana Fett during the first round of Wimbledon in June 2022. Swiatek, 22, has four major championships, but three are on the red clay of Roland Garros at the French Open and the other was won on the hard courts of the U.S. Open. Although she was the junior girls' champion at Wimbledon in 2018, she has yet to get past the fourth round in the grass court major on the WTA Tour.

By HOWARD FENDRICH / The Associated Press 8 min read

Iga Swiatek is coming off her third title in the past four years on the French Open’s red clay.

Just last September, she won a championship on the U.S. Open’s hard courts for the first time. That’s also the surface used at the Australian Open, where she has been as far as the semifinals in the first Grand Slam on the annual calendar for tennis.

What about on grass courts?

Wimbledon, which begins Monday, has been her least successful major tournament so far. Swiatek is just 5-3 at the All England Club — compare that to her 28-2 mark at Roland Garros in Paris, for example — and those three losses came in the first round, third round and fourth round.

Swiatek, who has been ranked No. 1 on the WTA Tour since April 2022, offered a bit of insight on how she views her game on grass when she was asked in Paris this month about whether reaching the latter stages of a major is still a big deal to her.