Iga Swiatek reveals what she’s planning to do next after losing to Aryna Sabalenka at Roland Garros

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Iga Swiatek traveled to Paris searching for a fourth consecutive French Open title.

The Polish WTA star hadn’t enjoyed the strongest of starts to her 2025 campaign, but looked to have found her footing in the City of Love.

Winning her first three matches without dropping a set, Swiatek advanced to the fourth round, where she beat Elena Rybakina in a decider.

Next up for Swiatek was Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, whom she beat in straight sets to book her place in the semi-finals.

There she came face to face with her biggest rival and world number one Aryna Sabalenka, who is searching for her maiden Roland Garros title in 2025.

In a tense three-set thriller, Swiatek was defeated by Sabalenka, as her French Open winning streak came to a sudden halt.

Speaking to the media after the match, Swiatek revealed what she intends to do now in the aftermath of such a disappointing result.

Iga Swiatek will have a ‘few days off’ but says she won’t go home before grass-court season

During her post-match press conference, Swiatek shared her plans for the next few weeks.

“I’m going to have a few days off, but the coaches will plan that,” she said.

“Hopefully we’re going to have some decent kind of little preseason on grass, because it’s always been pretty hard to have that, especially when I want to be at home for a little bit.

“But I don’t feel like I need to be home right now, so maybe I’ll go somewhere in Europe to practice.”

Swiatek is currently scheduled to begin her grass-court season at the Bad Homburg WTA 500 event later this month.

Reflecting on her French Open defeat, Swiatek assessed her efforts in Paris, looking back at what went wrong in the third set against Sabalenka.

“It wasn’t a bad tournament, but obviously, yeah, not the result I wanted,” she said.

“I think I lost my intensity a bit, and she just played, you know, like pretty strong as she did in the first set, but I didn’t react to that well and just couldn’t push back.”

After raising her game to level the semi-final at one set apiece, Swiatek fell apart in the third, as Sabalenka secured the win 7-6, 4-6, 6-0.

Looking ahead to the remainder of the 2025 season, Swiatek and her team will surely be concerned by the number of 0-6 and 1-6 sets she’s dropped recently.

Tennis fans had enjoyed using the term ‘Iga’s bakery’ over recent years, referring to her dominance over her WTA counterparts, handing out 6-0 sets (bagels) and 6-1 sets (breadsticks) of her own.

Now on the receiving end of such beatings, it certainly looks like there’s work to be done for Swiatek over the next few months.

Iga Swiatek’s four-year French Open winning streak comes to an end

Prior to her defeat to Sabalenka in the semi-finals, Swiatek had not lost a match at the French Open in 1,457 days.

During that time, Swiatek had picked up three Roland Garros titles, accumulating 26 match wins.

• 2022 French Open – Iga Swiatek won (Beat Coco Gauff in the final)
• 2023 French Open – Iga Swiatek won (Beat Karolina Muchova in the final)
• 2024 French Open – Iga Swiatek won (Beat Jasmine Paolini in the final)

Even with the loss, Swiatek still has a remarkable record at the sole clay-court Major, having already notched 40 match wins at Roland Garros as a 23-year-old.

Her record at the French Open far exceeds her efforts at the remaining three Slams, winning over 90% of her matches on the Parisian clay.

The new world number seven will now set her sights on Wimbledon, her worst-performing Grand Slam event.

In 2024, Swiatek lost to Kazakh star Yulia Putintseva in the third round at the All England Club, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6.

She’ll certainly be looking for a better showing this time around as the Pole’s search for a first title of 2025 goes on.

Next up for Swiatek is the Bad Homburg WTA 500 event in Germany, which is scheduled to begin on June 23.