{"id":360061,"date":"2025-12-21T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360061\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:52:26","slug":"iga-swiatek-makes-feelings-clear-on-finishing-2025-as-world-no-2-behind-aryna-sabalenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360061\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek makes feelings clear on finishing 2025 as world No 2 behind Aryna Sabalenka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek has reflected on finishing the 2025 campaign as the world No 2 as she also assessed that the players at the top of the WTA Tour \u201cgot more equal\u201d in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish superstar has 8,395 points, which puts her 2,495 points behind world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and 1,632 points ahead of third-ranked Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/iga-swiatek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swiatek<\/a> compiled a 64-17 (79%) win-loss record across the 20 events she played in 2025 (including the Billie Jean King Cup Finals).<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old\u2019s major season highlight was winning her maiden Wimbledon crown and sixth Grand Slam overall in July.<\/p>\n<p>She also secured titles at the WTA 1000 tournament in Cincinnati and the WTA 500 in Seoul, while she was a runner-up at the WTA 500 in Bad Homburg.<\/p>\n<p>What did Iga Swiatek say about her year-end No 2 finish in 2025?<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.claytenis.com\/interviews\/why-women-are-playing-better-and-better-now-theyre-hitting-195-an-interview-with-iga-swiatek\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLAY<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rg.org\/news\/tennis\/iga-swiatek-wta-field-deepens-dominance-2026\" target=\"_blank\">RG Media<\/a>, Swiatek expressed her satisfaction at ending the season as the second-best player in the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think finishing as No 2 is a great achievement,\u201d Swiatek said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the level we\u2019re all at got more equal. I think you could see that, especially during the WTA Finals, basically, any of us could win this tournament, we really played a lot of tight matches.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/anna-chakvetadze-wta-tour-era-comparison-sabalenka-swiatek-gauff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former world No 5 compares Sabalenka, Swiatek, Gauff to her own era in \u2018less diverse\u2019 verdict<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/australian-open\/iga-swiatek-jannik-sinner-coco-gauff-sign-up-for-lucrative-exhibition-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner, Coco Gauff sign up for lucrative exhibition event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some players that obviously prefer some conditions or others who feel better in this or that part of the season\u2026but I think overall we all are getting better in a really fast way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I would serve, like, 185 kilometres per hour three years ago, I think it would be a game changer, and it would be amazing, but now [that] I actually learned to do that, I realised that girls are serving 195.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obviously not only about the speed. It is just an example, but I think tennis is evolving and we\u2019re all presenting a pretty good level now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek added: \u201c[2025 was the] longest season I ever played.\u00a0The season was challenging, but I\u2019m super proud of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am also happy that it\u2019s done, because I played a lot of matches this year. And the schedule was packed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek has spent 125 weeks as the world No 1, having first climbed to top spot in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka has been the world No 1 since overtaking Swiatek in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/iga-swiatek-reveals-step-by-step-approach-ahead-of-career-grand-slam-tilt-at-australian-open\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek reveals \u2018step by step\u2019 approach ahead of Career Grand Slam tilt at Australian Open<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek has reflected on finishing the 2025 campaign as the world No 2 as she also assessed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-360061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360061","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=360061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}