{"id":261084,"date":"2025-11-04T13:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261084\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:11:14","slug":"iga-swiatek-speaks-out-after-suffering-huge-collapse-at-wta-finals-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261084\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek speaks out after suffering huge collapse at WTA Finals | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iga Swiatek<\/a> suffered a huge collapse in her second group-stage match at the WTA Finals on Monday, winning just one game after taking the first set over Elena Rybakina<\/a>. The Kazakh was the last woman to qualify for the season-ending championships, but she\u2019s already guaranteed to make it out of the group and play the semi-finals after sealing a 3-6 6-1 6-0 comeback victory over Swiatek.<\/p>\n

It was just the second time this year that the world No. 2 lost a match after taking the opening set. Swiatek hit 42 unforced errors during the disappointing defeat, and the Wimbledon<\/a> champion is now keen to rewatch the match to learn why she unravelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s hard to say what happened. We didn’t have many rallies; we were dominated by serve-plus-ones or return-plus-ones,\u201d Swiatek told Sportowe Fakty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I wasn’t as solid in playing those fast, long balls. Rybakina was more aggressive and more solid in finishing. I need to watch the match to fully understand it, but I can’t overanalyse it either.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was night and day from Swiatek\u2019s first round-robin match<\/a>, in which she dispatched Madison Keys 6-1 6-2 in just over an hour. The Polish star is still alive in the tournament, however, as she faces Amanda Anisimova for the second spot in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

But the six-time Major winner doesn\u2019t want to overanalyse her defeat to Rybakina. Instead, she\u2019s been unwinding with a few of her favourite off-court activities.<\/p>\n

Swiatek is a Lego ambassador, and often brings sets on the road with her to assemble in her downtime. The world No. 2 also loves reading, and she\u2019s currently watching Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always do all these things. I try to stay busy between matches,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Rybakina, meanwhile, is now on an eight-match winning streak. The world No. 6 claimed the title in Ningbo last month and then reached the semi-finals in Tokyo before withdrawing from the tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n

She arrived in Riyadh a little later than some of her rivals and suffered from jet lag early on<\/a>. But the 2022 Wimbledon winner needed just 57 minutes to beat Anisimova in her first round-robin match before stunning Swiatek on Monday.<\/p>\n

After completing the comeback against Swiatek, the world No. 6 said: \u201cShe brings so much intensity to the court. I feel like she started the match really well and I was a little bit slow, so on serve straight away, she broke me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was difficult to be down, but in the second set, I pushed myself. My serve improved, and I\u2019m really happy that I stepped in and played better each point. I\u2019m very happy with my performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been playing really well the past few weeks. I was improving in each match, and the results were following after. Even here, I\u2019m trying to focus on the little details, and it\u2019s a great opportunity to play against the top players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited for my next match, and hopefully I can bring the same intensity and the same game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek suffered a huge collapse in her second group-stage match at the WTA Finals on Monday, winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,10459,616,82,593,621,97177],"class_list":["post-261084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wta-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}