Iga Swiatek enters this year’s Roland Garros with a lot of pressure. The 23-year-old clay-court master now finds herself in a precarious position due to a string of underwhelming results and a shift in the WTA rankings.
At the start of the 2025 clay-court season, Swiatek faced a challenge: defending titles at all three big clay events—Madrid, Rome, and soon, Roland Garros. However, she was unable to defend her trophies in either Madrid or Rome this spring, losing valuable ranking points in the process. Those two tournaments alone had earned her 2,000 points last year, and their loss has now pushed her down from No.