World No 4 Iga Swiatek has shared a message on social media after she was forced to retire at the 2026 Madrid Open on what she described as \u201ca real rough day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The six-time Grand Slam champion retired due to a virus when trailing 6-7(4), 6-2, 0-3 against world No 34 Ann Li in the third round in Madrid.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a> is next set to compete at the Italian Open, which will be held from 5 to 17 May. The former world No 1 won the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome in 2021, 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n In a post on her Instagram account, Swiatek wrote: \u201cWhat can I say? It was a real rough day.<\/p>\n \u201cIt stings not having full control over my performance or being in charge of every decision.<\/p>\n \u201cToday is a bit better and I\u2019ll take the next day or two to recover fully. Then we\u2019ll push forward with more hard work.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pretty excited for the next one in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n Madrid Open: Iga Swiatek\u2019s ranking points and prize money from WTA 1000 event<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alex Eala withdraws from tournament after Madrid Open exit as her next event is confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tennis legend Boris Becker, a former world No 1 and winner of six majors, replied to Swiatek\u2019s post.<\/p>\n The German wrote: \u201cDon\u2019t be too hard on yourself!<\/p>\n \u201cEven the greatest champions lose sometimes\u2026 you have great people by your side! Upwards and Onwards IGA.\u201d<\/p>\n Following her retirement in Madrid, Swiatek said:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve been feeling awful for the last two days. I think I have some kind of virus. Some hours I\u2019ve been fine, but other times I\u2019ve been feeling really bad.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve heard there\u2019s something going around in the locker room, a virus that\u2019s out there somewhere. I know I\u2019ll be fine in a couple of days, but today I felt like I had zero energy, zero stability.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been feeling really bad physically; yesterday was even worse. I thought maybe things would be better today, and maybe they were, but not enough to play that much.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew it was going to be tough, but I still wanted to try, because I\u2019ve been sick a couple of times in my career and I was able to win most of my matches. It depended on how bad I was going to feel, and this time it was quite a bit worse than the previous times.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Iga Swiatek suffers big rankings collapse in alternative tennis list<\/a> The post Iga Swiatek sends candid message after retiring at Madrid Open as Boris Becker reacts<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World No 4 Iga Swiatek has shared a message on social media after she was forced to retire at the 2026 Madrid Open on what she described as \u201ca real rough day.\u201d The six-time Grand Slam champion retired due to a virus when trailing 6-7(4), 6-2, 0-3 against world No 34 Ann Li in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
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