It’s no secret that Iga \u015awi\u0105tek\u2019s favorite slam is Roland Garros.<\/p>\n
She is a four-time French Open champion and at one point a few years ago, looked to be a dominant force on clay.<\/p>\n
But the last two seasons, \u015awi\u0105tek hasn\u2019t looked formidable on this surface. She lost in the Round of 32 at the Madrid Open before losing in the semis in Rome. <\/p>\n
\u015awi\u0105tek\u2019s last French Open title came in 2024. If she is to win here again, she has a difficult draw. \u015awi\u0105tek may have to play Jelena Ostapenko in the third round, a player she’s never beaten. <\/p>\n
She’s in the same half of the draw as Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina. Don’t forget about a potential final matchup with world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n
Not easy indeed so it will be fascinating to see if \u015awi\u0105tek can rekindle her clay court magic here at Roland Garros. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s no secret that Iga \u015awi\u0105tek\u2019s favorite slam is Roland Garros. She is a four-time French Open champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}