The 2024 WTA Tour bagels and breadsticks bakery report: Iga Swiatek at No 1 again
The Iga Swiatek Bakery was once again busy during the 2024 WTA season with the Pole handing out the most bagels and breadsticks this campaign.
Coco Gauff and Zheng Qinwen also enjoyed great bagel seasons as they also dished out quite a few 6-0 scorelines, but Swiatek is without a doubt the chief pâtissiers on the WTA Tour.
In 2023, she won 23 sets 6-0, including handing out two double bagels in two matches as she beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-0, 6-0 at the Italian Open while Wang Xinyu also failed to win a game at the French Open. Her breadstick tally was 31 last year.
She didn’t quite match those figures, but still had a brilliant bakery season.
The 7 players with the most 6-0 and 6-1 sets in 2024:
=6. Mirra Andreeva – 18
Mirra Andreeva won four sets 6-0 in 2024 and one of the most notable bagels came against the sixth-seeded Ons Jabuer at the Australian Open.
The Russian also notched up 14 sets with a 6-1 scoreline.
Not bad for a 17-year-old.
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=6. Elena Rybakina – 18
Former Wimbledon Elena Rybakina had a stop-start 2024 season, but she still managed to win four sets 6-0 and 14 sets 6-1.
5. Aryna Sabalenka – 20
En route to successfully defending her Australian Open title, Aryna Sabalenka managed to notch up a double bagel win over Lesia Tsurenko in the round of 32.
Her total bagel tally for the year was six while she also won 14 sets 6-1.
Sabalenka, though, also lost two sets 6-0 and five sets 6-1.
4. Emma Navarro – 25
American Emma Navarro won five sets 6-0 and 20 sets 6-1.
Jasmine Poalini was one of the players on the receiving end of a Navarro bagel while Naomi Osaka, Paula Badosa and Elina Svitolina were among those who lost a set 6-1.
Navarro also lost seven sets 6-1, but she didn’t receive any bagels.
3. Zheng Qinwen – 25
Aged just 25, Zheng Qinwen has a big future as she finished runner-up at the Australian Open and WTA Finals in 2024 and reached a career-high No 5 in the WTA Rankings.
Two of 17 breadsticks came against world No 4 Paolini at the WTA Finals in Riyadh while she also collected eight bagels.
She handed Sara Errani a double bagel 6-0, 6-0 defeat during her gold medal singles run at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
2. Coco Gauff – 34
Coco Gauff is the only player besides Swiatek with more than 30 bagels and breadsticks in 2024 as they were split 12-22.
The American enjoyed one double bagel win against Arantxa Rus in Madrid while Navarro and Badosa were on the receiving end of 6-1 sets.
Gauff, though, also lost one set 6-0 and one set 6-1.
1. Iga Swiatek – 42
After her 54 bagels and breadsticks last year, Swiatek came up short of that tally this year as she won 14 sets 6-0 and 28 sets 6-1 to take her career tally to 176.
There was once again a double bagel – against Anastasia Potapova at the French Open while Victoria Azarenka, Danielle Collins, Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari all lost sets 6-0.
