Iga Swiatek and Rafael Nadal have been honoured by the International Tennis Federation because the 2022 ITF World Champions, after they claimed two grand slam titles every this season.
The ITF determines the award primarily based on standards that embrace all occasions however provides particular weight to the 4 main championships and two workforce occasions, the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup.
Nadal gained regardless of ending No.2 within the ATP rankings behind Carlos Alcaraz, whereas Swiatek topped the year-end WTA rankings.
The Spaniard joins his good friend and recently-retired rival Roger Federer as a five-times ITF world champion behind Pete Sampras (6) and 2021 winner Novak Djokovic (7).
He raised his grand slam title whole to a males’s-record 22 by profitable the Australian Open in January after which lifted the French Open in June.
“When I first won the award… I wouldn’t have expected to still be playing at such a high level 14 years later. It was special to win the Australian Open for a second time, and of course to win Roland Garros,” mentioned Nadal.
This is Swiatek’s first time as ITF World Champion and comes after she gained the French Open and the US Open for her second and third profession slams.
The Polish star additionally led the WTA with eight titles this 12 months and put collectively a 37-match profitable streak that was the longest unbeaten run in girls’s tennis since 1997.
Other ITF World Champions ifor the 12 months embrace the Czech pair of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova in girls’s doubles, American Rajeev Ram and Briton Joe Salisbury in males’s doubles, Dutchwoman Diede de Groot in girls’s wheelchair tennis and Japan’s Shingo Kunieda in males’s wheelchair tennis.
Dutchman Niels Vink is honoured in quad wheelchair tennis.
