Stat of the Day: Iga Swiatek records 100th hard-court win of career in Warsaw
The world No. 1 hit that milestone with a 6-1, 6-4 quarterfinal victory over Czech teenager Linda Noskova on Saturday.
In a career full of milestones, Iga Swiatek hit yet another one on Saturday, beating Czech teen Linda Noskova in the quarterfinals of Warsaw, 6-1, 6-4, for the 100th hard-court win of her career.
She’s now 100-33 in her career on hard courts.
SWIATEK’S HARD-COURT RECORD BY YEAR (tour-level):
2019: 7-7
2020: 7-4
2021: 20-11
2022: 47-7
2023: 19-4
TOTAL: 100-33
At 75.2%, it’s her second-best surface by career winning percentage. She’s 87.5% in her career on clay (63-9) and 68.4% on grass (13-6).
Because three of her four Grand Slam titles have come at Roland Garros, Swiatek is sometimes better known for her success on clay—but her 14 career tour-level titles are actually split evenly between clay and hard courts (7 and 7). Even her 18 career tour-level finals are split evenly between the two surfaces (9 and 9).
Swiatek almost secured the 101st hard-court win of her career on Saturday, too, as she led 2009 US Open semifinalist (and now mom-on-tour) Yanina Wickmayer in the semifinals of the WTA 250 event, 6-1, 5-2, but Wickmayer caught back up to 5-all in the second set when play was suspended for the day due to darkness.
On Sunday, Swiatek will not only try to close out that 101st hard-court win, she'll also try to reach the 19th WTA final of her career—and reach a WTA final on home soil in Poland for the first time.
Awaiting the winner of Swiatek-Wickmayer in the final later on Sunday will be Laura Siegemund, who won an all-German semifinal earlier in the day against 2022 Wimbledon semifinalist (and two-time mom-on-tour) Tatjana Maria, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.