Swiatek was unbeatable in Rome, not dropping a set en route to her third title in the Italian city. Iga became one of the youngest tennis players to win 10 WTA-1000 titles.
#6 Serena Williams
American legend Serena Williams is the most successful player at the WTA 1000 level. She has won 23 titles in this category, with her last WTA 1000 title coming at the Italian Open in 2016. The 23-time Grand Slam champion is the sixth youngest player to win 10 WTA-1000 titles, reaching the milestone at 26 years and six months.
Williams won her first title in this category at the Miami Open in 1999, and her 10th such victory came at the Charleston Open in 2008.
#5 Justine Henin
Justine Henin was one of the best tennis players in the world between 2002 and 2007. The Belgian made her mark on the tennis world at the WTA 1000 German Open in 2002, where she defeated Serena Williams to win her first title in this category. .
The former world number one won nine other WTA-1000 trophies during her career. His last such victory was at the 2007 Zurich Open, at the age of 25 years and four months.
#4 Maria Sharapova
Russian tennis legend Maria Sharapova is fourth on this list, having won her 10th title at the WTA-1000 level at the 2012 Italian Open at the age of 25 years and one month. It was his second title in Rome. Maria defeated Chinese tennis player Li Na and won the tournament.
Sharapova’s first WTA-1000 title came at the 2005 Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. During her career, the Russian won 14 titles in this category, and her last WTA-1000 title was the 2015 Italian Open.
#3 Steffi Graf
Germany’s most successful tennis player, Steffi Graf, won 107 singles titles during her career. Among them, 15 belonged to the WTA-1000 category. The 22-time Grand Slam champion won her first title in this category in 1988 in Florida.
Over the next five years, the German won 10 titles at the WTA-1000 level. She reached this milestone at the 1993 Canadian Open in Toronto at the age of 24 years and seven months, finishing third on that list.
#2 Iga Swiatek
Swiatek has won four Grand Slam titles and has been at the top for 103 weeks – ninth on the all-time list.
Iga makes the list after winning the Italian Open for the third time in his career in 2024 at the age of 22 years and 11 months. The Polish tennis player won her first WTA 1000 title at this tournament in 2021 and has won nine other trophies at this level in three years.
#1 Martina Hingis
The only tennis player ahead of Iga Swiatek on this list is Martina Hingis, whose star lit up in the 1990s. The youngest Grand Slam champion and former world number one, Hingis has won 43 singles titles over the course of his career.
At the WTA-1000 level, the Swiss has won 17 times. The first title was won at the 1997 Pan Pacific Open. At the same tournament in 2000, Hingis won her 10th WTA-1000 title at the age of 19 years and six months.
Vyacheslav Gorbachev, Athletistic
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