Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek both captured a pair of Grand Slam titles this year to emerge as ITF world champions.
Rafael Nadal was crowned the men’s ITF world champion for the fifth time in his career while top-ranked Iga Swiatek won the women’s award after a superb 2022 season, the International Tennis Federation said on Thursday, December 15.
“I’m very happy to be named ITF world champion for the fifth time,” the 36-year-old Nadal, who also bagged the award in 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2019, said in a statement. Swiatek went on a 37-match winning run and won the French and US Opens as well as titles at Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart, Rome, and San Diego. She won 67 matches overall and topped the list of finals reached and trophies won.
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