Iga Swiatek, the 21-year-old Polish professional tennis player, can officially claim 2022 as hers, ending the year as the No. 1 player in the 2022 WTA year-end singles rankings for the first time in her young career.
With 67 match wins this season, including both titles at The French Open and US Open, Swiatek is on quite the streak (32 weeks and counting) as the world No. 1 — and in the process has amassed the second-most year-end ranking points (11,085) in WTA ranking history. The one-and-only Serena Williams set an all-time record when she earned 13,260 points in 2013.
But Swiatek wasn’t the only women’s singles player who swung hard and secured the bag this season. Let’s take a deeper look at the year-end rankings from the WTA.
Final rankings from the WTA show Swiatek earned more than double that of the second-place finisher — Ons Jabeur (5,055 points) — and more than four times that of 10th-place finisher Simona Halep (2661 points). That’s total domination.
But it doesn’t diminish the rest of the talent in the women’s game today.
Swiatek is clearly on the upswing, but the rest of the field is loaded with up-and-comers in the lady’s game.
There’s 28-year-old American Jessica Pegula, whose appearances in the quarterfinals of this year’s Australian Open, US Open, and French Open propelled her up the rankings to No. 3. And of course, we can’t forget about Coco Gauff, whose appearances in the finals at the French Open, and quarterfinals at the US Open, have helped her finish No. 7 in the world.