The Polish Iga Swiateknumber one in the world at the end of the 2023 season and winner this Sunday of the WTA finals in Cancun (Mexico), has based its excellence throughout the season on its great effectiveness with othersa section where it achieved the best percentage of games won, 49.9%, among the leaders of the classification.
His service statistics were more irregular and he weakened especially with the number of aces, a chapter led by French Caroline Garcia, with 462 in 64 matchesmore than seven in each match.
Swiatek is the player with the most matches this year, 79four more than the next, the American Jessica Pegula, also a finalist in Cancún.
According to WTA statistics, Swiatek has a 65.5% success rate. on her first serve, was surpassed by 75.3% by Russian Daria Kasatkina, 69.4% by Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia and 67.1% by American Madison Keys.
He won 69.7% of first serve points, surpassed in this statistic by the 73.7% of Chinese Qinwen Zheng (15th in the world), 72.9% of Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, world number two, 72.4% of French Caroline Garcia, 71.5% of Russian Liudmila Samsonova and 70.1% of Czech Petra Kvitova.
Swiatek had the most second serves (54.3%) and who won the most points among them (64.4%), followed by Sabalenka.
Saving break points has not been his forte this season, with more than 60 players in the top 100 improving on the Pole’s 52.5% efficiency in this section. Carolina Garcia wins, with 65.4% of break balls passed.
In direct serve points, the queen of the season is Garcia, with 462, compared to Rybakina’s 455. and 401 from Sabalenka. Swiatek is number 37, with 124.
The Pole made only 122 double faults throughout the year, a chapter in which the worst was the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, with 357and Sabalenka, with 281, was fourth worst.
Overall, the player who won the most service games was Sabalenka, with 81%closely followed by Carolina Garcia, with 80.8%, and Swiatek, with 79.9%.
Swiatek leads in percentage of games won against others, 49.9%. Sabalenka, however, remained at 37.3%.
He converted 55.6% of his break points. Among the first in the ranking, only the Czech Barbora Krejcikova comes close, with 50.5%, as Sabalenka is limited to 44.2%.
The Pole is the second best returner of first serves, with 40.7%, well ahead of Kasatkina’s 41.2%.. And he is on top of second serve returns, with 63.8%. Sabalenka remains at 56.3%.
Swiatek also leads the percentage of points won among the rest of the best group, with 49.9%, compared to 44.9% for the Belarusian.
Source: La Verdad
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