Why Iga Swiatek is the WTA's Most Dominant Player

Iga Swiatek has been a saving grace for the 2022 WTA season.

The season began with Ash Barty solidifying her status as a dominant world number one and promptly retiring. But few could have predicted how quickly the void atop the women's game would be filled.

Between mid-February and early July, Swiatek won 37 straight matches, spanning six titles. Although everyone would've benefitted from a long-term Swiatek-Barty rivalry, Swiatek's rise made Barty's departure easier to swallow.

But what has made Iga Swiatek the most dominant player on the WTA tour in 2022?

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[Kiki-loxb]

The numbers are scarrryyy, for someone who's not overly muscular or tall it's even more impressive to generate so much power on shots.

May the reign of Iga continue.

[yennyrodriguezdemorales]

Wait a great explosion. Iga is here to stay for sure and she is becoming a monster with her service now

[gracelynch]

Stumbled upon this channel. Definitely some of the best Tennis content here.

[pedrogb]

This is fantastic stuff! Looking forward to more

[noelhudson]

Iga will be at the top for years to come a true star

[mambaever]

Great video here. Only thing missing I think is discussion of her devastating returns, especially on 2nd serves, as well as her ability to slide and hit aggressive shots that would be more defensive for 99% of players on the tour (similar to Novaks sliding technique)

[HarrisonSim]

I didn't know Gil worked with you guys! Awesome! Great content as always.

[fishdrew]

Wonderful breakdown! One of the best tennis analyses I've ever seen!

[danielcbraga]

Very poetic script, and great visuals/editing. Great job!

[liquidpebbles]

AmaIng video as always, keep them coming, love from Perú

[olafsrensen]

Not to mention the unconfortable and out of strikezone shot that heavy forhands creates .Un top of these advances it makes it much more easy to make short angels .
Just love to see Iga play .!

[jonizefox]

Would like to have a link to those numbers and shots ranking.
Iga's fast moves is her second major strengh, as Vekic said "I hit an Iga Swiatek wall".

[secrets.]

One thing I noticed is thar there were power players back in the 00s, Williams Sisters, Sharapova, Davenport, etc. But upon seeing older videos. I dont think the power players back then takes excessive risks like the power players today. I watched Serena's videos against many big hitting players of the 00s, she seems to hold back the majority of the point and she only attacks when the time is right. Many of the big hitting players these days makes way too many risky shots. You got to know when to attack, when to defend, when to slow down the pace of your shots. It cant be big hitting shots all the time. That is where the 2010s female players dont get in my opinion. The type of game they play is very risky. It is superb when they are in their best form but 90% of the time, they will make unbelievable amount of unforced errors. It is not a sustainable game plan. And yes I do agree. The way she plays is like a guy.

[xmini-ulje]

The best appereance of nowadays tennis. See ya.

[madhukiranattivilli]

RPM — shouldn’t we call it rotations per minute instead of revolutions per minute?

[rob]

Muscle girl Sakkari just slaps away these "heavy" balls like any others. But I can see heavy balls being very effective against the majority of the WTA players.

[sano]

Have you seen Samsonova's forehand? It's the best I've seen! Iga is a great player but Samsonova just routed a player that was on a 15 match winning streak. A player that had won 26 of her last 27 sets.

[hussTennis]

Wahoo an other super interesting topic, thank you very much !
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