Iga Swiatek gave a candid assessment of her performance after her surprise defeat to Clara Tauson at the 2025 Canadian Open.<\/p>\n
The world No 3 fell 6-7(1), 3-6 to 19th-ranked Tauson in the last 16 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal on Sunday evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n Swiatek<\/a>\u00a0hit 46 unforced errors, 25 of which were from her forehand side, as she suffered her first loss in four meetings with the 22-year-old Dane.<\/p>\n The Pole fought back from 5-3 down in the opening set, but lost six straight points in the tiebreak to lose the set.<\/p>\n In the second set, Swiatek broke back in the seventh game having trailed 1-4, but Tauson made the decisive breakthrough to go up 5-3 before sealing the win.<\/p>\n The six-time Grand Slam champion entered the match on a nine-match winning streak \u2014 during which she had lost just a single set.<\/p>\n The run included Swiatek\u2019s charge to her maiden Wimbledon title last month and dominant wins over Hanyo Guo and Eva Lys in her first two matches in Canada.<\/p>\n Swiatek now holds a 8-4 record from her four appearances at the Canadian Open, with her best result her semi-final showing in 2023.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff v Iga Swiatek for No 2 spot in WTA Rankings: How battle shapes up after Canadian Open exits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Clara Tauson reveals the key moment when she realised she had the \u2018upper hand\u2019 in Iga Swiatek upset<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In her press conference after losing to Tauson, Swiatek recognised that her high error count proved costly.<\/p>\n \u201cI made too many mistakes in the tiebreak,\u201d Swiatek said.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the second set, I felt Clara had the wind in her sails and I didn\u2019t really know how to solve the problems. I definitely made too many mistakes on balls I could have played.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, I didn\u2019t play perfectly here. I always feel like I have to adapt to hard courts. And these matches are also an opportunity to learn.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like I made the same mistakes I did at the end of my hard-court season in March.\u201d<\/p>\n The 24-year-old will next compete at the WTA 1000 tournament in Cincinnati, which gets underway on Thursday August 7.<\/p>\n Tauson, who lost to Swiatek in the fourth round at Wimbledon, said: \u201cI just felt like after I won the first set that I needed to continue, because I know she\u2019s never going to give up, and she\u2019s going to come out firing no matter what.<\/p>\n \u201cI think obviously getting a win against her after losing to her in Wimbledon and a couple of weeks ago is obviously nice, because I was not feeling great in that match, and I felt like I was playing some good tennis in Wimbledon. So I felt like if I could keep that going, I thought I had a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a02025 WTA Cincinnati Open Entry List: Aryna Sabalenka returns as 3 top 10 stars missing; Why Emma Raducanu is seeded<\/a> The post Iga Swiatek makes\u00a0honest confession after her winning streak ended at\u00a0Canadian Open<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek gave a candid assessment of her performance after her surprise defeat to Clara Tauson at the 2025 Canadian Open. The world No 3 fell 6-7(1), 3-6 to 19th-ranked Tauson in the last 16 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal on Sunday evening. Swiatek\u00a0hit 46 unforced errors, 25 of which were from her […]<\/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-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Iga Swiatek News<\/h2>\n
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