For a sport with no clock, time flies in tennis. Heading into Wimbledon, the word on Iga Świątek was that her career had passed its prime. She hadn’t won a tournament—much less a major—in over a year. And she arrived at the All England Club ranked No. 8, her lowest in years.
That was late June. Here we are in late August, and after having won Wimbledon for the first time, she sashays into New York ranked No. 2, fresh from winning the Cincinnati title, and in pursuit of her second U.S. Open championship.
