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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.

Iga Świątek advances to WTA final in Lugano

Poland's Iga Świątek has defeated Czech Kristyna Pliskova 6-0 and 6-1 in the semi final of the WTA tournament in Lugano, Switzerland, and advanced to the final round of the event.

Game, set and match: Agnieszka Radwanska gives emotional farewell as she announces her retirement

The 29-year-old star said on Facebook she was “no longer able to train and play the way I used to, and recently my body can't live up to my expectations.”

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Art & Culture

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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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‘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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