Iga Swiak, the collapse continues. Polish will come out of the top 3 world after more than 1,100 days

Ashley Davis12/05/2025

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Iga Swiak has been in free fall for almost a year and fails to find solutions to rectify the situation. The break was produced at the Paris Olympic Games, when he missed the gold medal, although he started as a favorite, after which things took it dramatically for the former world leader.

Igăi Swiak does not come out of this season. Photo Getty Images

Last year, Polish won five titles – Doha, Indian Wells, Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros -, all in the first part of the year, after which it started. This season, Iga seemed to have forgotten to win. He reached at most the semifinals of the competitions he participated in, lost important points in the world ranking, which costs it, to fall on the 4th place at the end of the Rome tournament, after Sabalenka, Gauff and Pegula. Worse, Swiak has come to have half of the points of the leader of the world tennis hierarchy.

The Iga shocks through the enormous oscillations between his games: it destroys its opponents, followed by lamentable parties, in which it loses without the right of appeal, suffering failures difficult to explain. The culmination of the fall happened in Rome, where the 23-year-old player gave up in the third round, in front of Daniele Collins, score 1-6, 5-7. This is because the international Italy was his specialty, until the defeat in front of the American, with 21 victories from 22 parties, with three titles won in the last 4 years.

No expectations at Roland Garros

After the match, the Polish left expected for 4 hours until it appeared in front of the journalists. With a sad mine, Iga Swiak made his self-criticism, but he also recognized that it would be stupid to have any hope at Roland Garros, a tour that he won 4 times, in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. “I think I was just not there to fight and compete. I focused on mistakesand that's my fault, because I don't do things well. I notice that I focus only on what I do not do well.

It is clear that I do things wrong; I have to reflect and change. Obviously, it would be stupid to have too high expectations from Roland Garros, because I'm not able to play my game now. I talked to my team, they gave me some tips and I will try to apply them, because I have to change my mentality “said the best slag player in the world, quoted by ponsodebreak.com.

The fall of Igăi Swiak is simply incomprehensible. It will leave the next world Top 3, for the first time in March 2022. That is, after 1,161 days of continuous presence between the first in the world. Polish was WTA World leader for 125 weeks, in two stages: April 4, 2022 – September 10, 2023 and November 6, 2023 – October 20, 2024.