Polish Player Shares Brutal Analysis of Iga Swiatek’s Wimbledon Win: “She Played Against Weaker Girls”

Iga Swiatek had played only three seeded players en route to lifting her career's first Wimbledon title.

Polish Player Shares Brutal Analysis of Iga Swiatek’s Wimbledon Win: “She Played Against Weaker Girls”

Iga Swiatek (Image via X/Barstool Tennis)

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Not even Iga Swiatek had expected herself to take home the 2025 Wimbledon title. In the tournament, she dropped a set only against her second-round opponent, Caty McNally.

Thrice she won a set with a 6-0 scoreline: in the semifinal against Belinda Bencic and in the final against Amanda Anisimova. This made her only the second player after Steffi Graf to win a Grand Slam singles tournament with a 6-0, 6-0 scoreline.

Swiatek’s compatriot, Jerzy Janowicz, however, was unimpressed. Janowicz, an inactive player, thinks Swiatek rather won Wimbledon not because of her skills on grass courts, but because she was up against only “weaker” players. He told Super Sport:

I wouldn’t say Iga plays well on grass, because she didn’t really have a single major test at Wimbledon. She played against girls who were much weaker at tennis; she didn’t really play against any girls who could give her trouble on grass. These were girls who were really learning grass or who played poorly on grass.

En route to the win, Swiatek had faced only three seeded players, all outside of the top 10. Anisimova was seeded 13th, while her quarterfinal opponent, Liudmila Samsonova, and her fourth-round opponent, Clara Tauson, were seeded 19th and 23rd, respectively.

She didn’t have a single test at Wimbledon this year, so it’s hard to give a blanket assessment. No one could have given her such pure tennis conditions—not just the grass, but pure tennis conditions—to test Iga.

Jerzy Janowicz added

Before Wimbledon, the former World No.1 had never lifted a title on grass. Also, prior to arriving in London, Swiatek had played her career’s first final on grass- at the Bad Homburg Open, where World No.4 Jessica Pegula clinched the win. The Wimbledon title was also Swiatek’s first victory this season (and her first since her Roland Garros triumph last year).

Iga Swiatek on losing her No.1 ranking to Aryna Sabalenka

Iga Swiatek lost her No.1 rankings last year when, due to the doping scandal, she was provisionally suspended, and ended up missing mandatory events on the Asian swing. At the same time, Aryna Sabalenka was winning one tournament after the other, and this helped her dethrone Swiatek and reclaim her top spot.

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Iga Swiatek (Image via X/The Tennis Letter)

Swiatek was extremely annoyed at losing the No.1 ranking due to the doping saga. Earlier this month, following a ball kid incident at Indian Wells, Swiatek took to Instagram to explain how she was “deeply upset” after realizing that not defending her titles this year would keep affecting her rankings.

Swiatek, during Andy Roddick‘s Served podcast, recalled dealing with “pretty childish” feelings. She said it took her a while to get over such feelings, and then she started to focus on what’s ahead of her rather than the past.

Maybe it was not a lot of humility, but I felt like I deserved to be No.1, and it was taken away from me. And having these kinds of feelings didn’t help me for the next month, because I just felt like the world is not fair.

Because she failed to defend the five titles she had won last year, Swiatek even dropped to the eighth spot on the rankings table. But her Wimbledon triumph took her to the top three once again.

Swiatek is in Montreal for the WTA 1000 Canadian Open. She will start her campaign against China’s Guo Hanyu, who defeated Yulia Putintseva, to schedule her career’s first match against the Pole.

The six-time Grand Slam champion had skipped the Canadian Open last year. She produced her best when she reached the semifinals in 2023, losing the match to eventual champion Jessica Pegula.

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