By Chris Oddo | @Thefanchild | Tuesday 6 May 2025
Almost almost strange to say: IgA swiatek There has been three clay-judge tours without winning a title. No, the sky is not falling – far from it – but from the high standard of fraud polish, it is startling.
This is a player who rode a winning belt of 23 matches on the surface in the Olympic semifinal in Paris last year. We were becoming so accustomed to its dominance on the surface that it was difficult to imagine again by losing it again.
But things change quickly in tennis, and now-only 10 months later-Swiate is trying to find her self-esteem and comfort before protecting her title in Rome.
Failed title defenses in Doha and Indian Wells raised some flags. Swiatek did not seem to be comfortable on her skin and losses to her personal crush residue (in Doha) and adolescent growing Mirria Andva (in Indian Wells) seems to highlight its relative weakness.
Would Clay Elixir, Panacea for Swiatek wars? So far it has not been.
Ostapenko took it back to Stuttgart, and then she suffered an unfair loss Coco gafff In half of Madrid, 6-1, 6-1. Another protection of the title below drainage, and more reasons to ask yourself what is making the most reliable clay course in women’s game to lift its level?
It looks like the swiatte has scored something. She has problems in her head and is leading to poor decisions.
Come on social content, stand for sweet surprise!IgA Swiatek gets tiramisu during the media day in Rome. pic.twitter.com/u5i1cmd8ip
– Jimmie48 (@jjlovennis) photo 6 May 2025
“This year I feel like I am fighting a little more with my perfectionism,” Swiatek said on Rome’s media day. “I want to focus for sure to discipline in court and make the right choices, not the choices that sometimes appear in my head, but being really solid. I think I can do it. That’s my main focus now.”
Maybe it’s really so simple. Just accept the war, play the simple, heavy game and focus very much on the models that have always worked.
Swiatte certainly has it in it to make a sudden turn in Rome, and Paris, where the surface is slower and fits its game as a warm handle in the dead winter. The slowest conditions will give her a more time fraction to set her own patterns, and focus on “being really strong”.
And, if you remove the loss in Gauff, and more than a few shaky moments in the quarterfinal victory over Madison Keys in Madrid, you can say that Swiatek is not far from its best. There was no loss of the first round, and in Stuttgart it was close to finally win a victory over Ostapenko.
The 23-year-old world No.2 gets comfort in its consistency, while at the same time it sounds a little impatient with itself.
Returning the sample three times to her living room!IgA swiatek practices at the Campo Central on Monday. pic.twitter.com/qe3uq7kier
– Jimmie48 (@jjlovennis) photo May 5, 2025
“The match with Coco was probably not good,” she said. “I had trouble focusing. I wasn’t moving well. I think everything built at one point. That is why the result was like that.
“Surely I’m happy with consistency. This is something I always want. There is no tour I come in and I’m not prepared.
Although some may wonder about Swiate’s relationship with coach Wim fissette, Pole had nothing but good things to say about him at her press conference in Rome. It sounds like a player who believes it’s on the right track to end the title drought, and soon.
“Judah is just like a day,” she said about her loss to Guff in Madrid. “You can’t judge everything with it. I am continuing the work I have done. I trust the process. We will look at another.”
