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Polish tennis star, her coach receive WTA awards

Świątek won the WTA Most Improved Player of the Year title for her outstanding improvement throughout the 2020 season. Yoan Valat/PAP/EPA

Polish teenager Iga Świątek, who won Poland's first ever Grand Slam singles title at this year's French Open tennis tournament, was named Most Improved Player of the Year by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). Her coach also received a WTA award.

Poland's Swiatek climbs to No. 17 in WTA ranking

Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek advanced to world No. 17 in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking after she won the French Open tournament and claimed her maiden Grand Slam title at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.

Grandest slam: Świątek makes tennis history by becoming first Pole to win grand-slam singles title

Victory in French Open highlights the meteoric rise of the teenager from the outskirts of Warsaw.

Polish tennis player advances to French Open finals

Polish teenager Iga Świątek made it to her first Grand Slam final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros in Paris on Thursday, by defeating Nadia Podorska of Argentina.

Polish tennis player advances to French Open semi-finals

Polish teenager Iga Swiatek made it to her first Grand Slam semifinal by ending the surprising French Open run of qualifier Martina Trevisan of Italy.

Poland's Swiatek in French Open tennis quarterfinal after crushing Halep

Poland's Iga Swiatek defeated top seed Simona Halep of Romania 6-1, 6-2 in the fourth round of the French Open, a Grand Slam tennis tournament, at Roland Garros in Paris on Sunday.

Iga Świątek to play with Łukasz Kubot at Australian Open

Poles Iga Świątek and Łukasz Kubot gained the so-called 'wild card' and will play together at the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament, Artur Bochenek, from the Warsaw Sport Group Open, announced on Wednesday.

She’s Ace! Poland’s Iga Świątek wins girl’s junior Wimbledon

Although Saturday’s win was Iga’s first Grand Slam title, this is not the first international success for the rising tennis star.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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