Iga Swiatek admitted she \u201cwasn\u2019t present to fight and compete\u201d during her shocking defeat to Danielle Collins at the 2025 Italian Open.<\/p>\n
The five-time Grand Slam champion was upset 6-1, 7-5 by Collins in the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a>\u00a0was the defending champion at the Italian Open and had won three of the previous four editions of the event.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old Pole\u2019s defeat means she will arrive at the 2025 French Open without having reached a final since securing her fourth Roland Garros crown last year.<\/p>\n Here is every word Swiatek said in her mixed zone interview.<\/p>\n Q.\u00a0<\/strong>What were you processing on the court today?<\/p>\n SWIATEK:<\/strong> For sure it hasn\u2019t been easy. For sure I\u2019m doing something wrong. So I need to just regroup and kind change some stuff. I had some advice from the team. I\u2019ll just try to do this.<\/p>\n Q.<\/strong> We can see it\u2019s obviously difficult for you. Who are the people you lean on for emotional support?<\/p>\n SWIATEK:<\/strong> Yeah, well, Daria [Abramowicz], like everybody from my team. Yeah, we talked and came to some conclusions. So yeah, I\u2019m just going to change my mindset a little bit because\u2026<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek set for shocking rankings collapse after latest nightmare defeat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek\u2019s latest comments confirm she is growing tired of the constant negativity coming her way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Q.<\/strong> I saw you mentioned in the article that you sort of feel like you revert to old habits when you\u2019re feeling under pressure, expectations. Was that something you felt like happened today at all?<\/p>\n SWIATEK:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know. Well, I think I just wasn\u2019t there, present to, like, fight and to compete. I focused on mistakes. It\u2019s my mistake, and I\u2019m not doing things right. So yeah, the focus is on the wrong things from my side and I\u2019ll try to change that.<\/p>\n Q.<\/strong> Your expectations now going into Roland Garros\u2026<\/p>\n SWIATEK:<\/strong>\u00a0Obviously it would be stupid to expect a lot because I\u2019m not able to play my game right now.\u00a0I\u2019ll just try to, you know, as I said, change my mindset a little bit, try to regroup and just focus day by day working.<\/p>\n Q.<\/strong> Other people have had great success at particular Grand Slams. Even if they come into them not playing great, they say they have a certain feeling.<\/p>\n SWIATEK:<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t care what other people had.\u00a0There\u2019s no point to compare.<\/p>\n Q.<\/strong> Do you get a certain feeling when you come to Roland Garros?<\/p>\n SWIATEK:<\/strong> It doesn\u2019t matter what things I get. Every year is different, so\u2026 Doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Emma Raducanu\u2019s \u2018crucial\u2019 improvement on clay revealed by former Wimbledon winner<\/a> The post Iga Swiatek makes concerning admissions as she bluntly reacts to Italian Open shock<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek admitted she \u201cwasn\u2019t present to fight and compete\u201d during her shocking defeat to Danielle Collins at the 2025 Italian Open. The five-time Grand Slam champion was upset 6-1, 7-5 by Collins in the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. Swiatek\u00a0was the defending champion at the Italian Open and had won […]<\/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-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Iga Swiatek News<\/h2>\n
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