Iga Swiatek has been a strong force on the WTA Tour this decade, having spent a total of 125 weeks as World No.1.
Swiatek is currently second in the WTA rankings, having been overtaken by Aryna Sabalenka at the end of 2024.
She has began the 2025 season in strong form, with Swiatek helping Poland to reach a second successive United Cup final.
However, there were fears for Swiatek after she took a medical timeout against Coco Gauff in the United Cup final.
Swiatek has since suggested that her injury woes were more fatigue than anything, playing down concerns about her Australian Open participation.
Iga Swiatek admits that she didn’t focus on tennis for three months after first Roland Garros win
Swiatek first caught major headlines back in 2020, when she triumphed at the autumn edition of Roland Garros as a 19-year-old.
When speaking about her first Grand Slam victory on the Tennis Insider Club podcast, Swiatek suggested that she thought this would be her only major success and was more focussed on commercial deals in the initial aftermath.
“With Daria [Abramowicz] we start in 2019 and 2020 was the big hit, so for sure it would be much tougher to handle it without her (psychologist) and my coach who has known me since 17,” said Swiatek. “People don’t know about this but after I won (the first) Roland Garros for three months I was so focused on the business side of sports, I thought this was the only success I was going to have in my life.”
“For three months I was so not focused on tennis and practices. Daria kind of saw that and knew that. She wanted me to figure it out on my own but I didn’t.
“I went to this whole thing of thinking about money and sponsors and after some time she saw that I wasn’t doing anything to change it she should me this was not a good way to go and this is not the only success you are going to have in your life. So I refocused and I could continue working on court rather than behind a laptop.”
All of Iga Swiatek’s Grand Slam title victories
Despite Swiatek’s initial thoughts that the first Roland Garros victory would be her only major win, the 23-year-old would has gone onto win a further four majors.
This includes winning four of the past five editions of Roland Garros, alongside a US Open victory back in 2022.
As a result of her dominance at the Paris major, Swiatek is only three behind women’s record holder Chris Evert.
Swiatek also now has the same number of Grand Slam titles as retired legends Maria Sharapova and Martina Hingis.
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