It isn’t exactly a secret that 2025 has not been Iga Swiatek’s year. She hasn’t found herself in a tour final of any level since last year’s Roland-Garros, never mind taking home a title. And, with a botched clay season in which she made only one semifinal, she openly expressed that she didn’t like her odds of defending her title in Paris.
Obviously, it would be stupid to expect a lot because I’m not able to play my game right now,” Swiatek said after losing to Danielle Collins in the third round of Rome, where she was the defending champion. “For sure, I’m doing something wrong, so I need to just regroup and change some stuff. I heard some ideas from the team, so I’ll just try to do that in next weeks.”
She must have changed some things, because some things have changed in Paris.
