Tennis legend Chris Evert has voiced her concerns over Iga Swiatek\u2019s form as she named her four favourites to win the women\u2019s singles title at the 2025 French Open.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a>\u00a0has been the dominant WTA player on clay this decade, having claimed the Roland Garros crown in four of the last five years and at each of the previous three editions.<\/p>\n However, Swiatek has not reached a final at any tournament since her victory at the 2024 French Open.<\/p>\n The world No 2 was badly out of sorts in a shock 6-1, 7-5 defeat to Danielle Collins in the third round of the Italian Open \u2014 where she was the reigning champion.<\/p>\n Swiatek\u2019s latest alarming defeat came after she was dismantled 6-1, 6-1 by Coco Gauff in the semi-finals of the Madrid Open.<\/p>\n The Polish star\u2019s clay campaign began at the WTA 500 in Stuttgart, where she was upset by Jelena Ostapenko in the quarter-finals \u2014 her sixth loss in as many meetings with the Latvian.<\/p>\n Evert, who won a record seven French Open women\u2019s titles, revealed she cannot choose between the leading contenders for the Paris Grand Slam.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how you can pick anybody between [Aryna] Sabalenka, Iga and Coco, and with Madison Keys really to me would be my fourth pick,\u201d the 18-time major winner told\u00a0Forbes.<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek makes concerning admissions as she bluntly reacts to Italian Open shock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek set for shocking rankings collapse after latest nightmare defeat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t know how Iga is going to react. That, to me, is the unknown.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know what she is capable of, and with her past records, she\u2019s brilliant at the French Open, but I just don\u2019t know if she can find her A game, because she\u2019s going to need it. It\u2019s kind of like we\u2019re seeing her C game right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Evert has previously revealed she expects Swiatek to break her Roland Garros title record.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m worried about it every day. When I put my head under the pillow I\u2019m worried about Iga,\u201d the American said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Iga will end up on double digits. I don\u2019t just think she will beat my record here. I think it\u2019s double digits.\u201d<\/p>\n The only active WTA players to win the Roland Garros title are Swiatek, Ostapenko and Barbora Krejcikova.<\/p>\n Gauff was a French Open runner-up in 2022, Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s best result is reaching the semi-finals in 2023.<\/p>\n Australian Open champion Madison Keys was a semi-finalist at Roland Garros in 2018.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu make feelings clear on playing each other in Rome<\/a> The post Chris Evert rates Iga Swiatek\u2019s French Open chances as she names four favourites<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennis legend Chris Evert has voiced her concerns over Iga Swiatek\u2019s form as she named her four favourites to win the women\u2019s singles title at the 2025 French Open. Swiatek\u00a0has been the dominant WTA player on clay this decade, having claimed the Roland Garros crown in four of the last five years and at each […]<\/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-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Iga Swiatek News<\/h2>\n
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