Iga Swiatek is already looking towards the 2026 WTA season after enjoying a hugely successful 2025 season.
Swiatek secured three WTA titles in 2025, with her Wimbledon success accompanied by victories in Seoul and Cincinnati.
Sam Querrey rates Swiatek’s season above Aryna Sabalenka’s, despite the latter reaching three Grand Slam finals.
Sabalenka won one of those finals, as well as finishing the latest season as the number one player in the world.
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Wim Fissette analyses historical WTA season for Iga Swiatek
Swiatek won her only Grand Slam final of 2025, defeating Amanda Anisimova to clinch her first Wimbledon title.
Her coach Wim Fissette has now referenced that success after being asked on Break Point to rate Swiatek’s latest season on the WTA Tour.
He said: “Well first of all, 2025 will be a year for Iga that will go into history. Winning Wimbledon, where nobody was expecting that, and the way she did it.
“That is something we will think about in 10, 20, 30 years. This was just like unreal. So only even just with this performance, 2025 was a fantastic year.
“One of the goals when I started was to play better on the faster surfaces and to be more comfortable. That’s a goal we clearly achieved.
“You saw the result in Cincinnati as well, and that is something that Iga will take also in the next years to know, ‘It doesn’t matter what surface, if it’s slow or fast, I’m actually competing for the title. I know I can do that. I need to make a few adjustments, but I can do that’.
“And yeah I think we went through a few phases in the year where I saw, in the middle of the year, and that was before Wimbledon, also a clear change in the mindset of, ‘I want to develop, I want to become a better player, I want to improve’.
“And you saw also shots, like the serve, where Iga was more the player to start the point with the serve, instead of really believing she could win points more with her first serve.
“She started doing that on the grass and that’s part of the success that she had in Wimbledon and Cincinnati.
“So I think we made a good change of that mindset right there. And yeah, we hope of course we can continue that in 2026.”
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Wim Fissette picks his most difficult moment with Iga Swiatek
Along with the superb success, there were tricky spells for Swiatek and Fissette, which have now been detailed by the latter.
When asked for the most difficult moment he has faced with her, he said: “A tennis season always has highs and lows.
“It’s part of tennis, and the top players, they get out of the lows very quickly. And I think that’s what Iga did this year.
“And you know, the clay court season was a season where she could only lose, the expectations were like… I’ve never been with a player where the expectations for a certain season were that high. And it’s kind of normal because of last year.
“But it’s never easy. You go into a new season where the season before you won Madrid, Rome, Paris, so you cannot win points, you can only do less good than you did the year before.
“There are a lot of good players out there. So it’s not easy. We all know that Coco [Gauff] can play very well on the clay, we know that Aryna Sabalenka can play very well on the clay. So it’s not easy.”
The 2024 season was indeed remarkable for Swiatek, whose five titles were more than any other singles player.
Making the feat more impressive was the fact she clinched four WTA 1000 titles alongside a fourth French Open triumph.
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