Iga Swiatek faces dramatic fall as Italian Open 2025 early exit sends shockwaves in her WTA rankings

The nightmare seems to be continuing for star player Iga Swiatek after her horrendous defeat in the Italian Open 2025. The Polish star has suffered defeat against Danielle Collins in the Round of 32 and even failed to make it to the pre-quarterfinals of the tournament. Notably, she was the defending champion here and failed to repeat her success in 2025.

Swiatek has been hailed as 'Queen of Clay' for the last so many years for her remarkable run on the clay court swing. However, her form seems to be declining this time. The 23-year-old star player suffered defeat in her quarter-final round in the Stuttgart Open 2025 after losing against eventual champion Jelena Ostapenko.

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Iga Swiatek's shocking world ranking after Italian Open 2025

However, she did reach the semi-finals of the Mutua Madrid Open 2025 in the Spanish capital before losing against USA star Coco Gauff. Thereafter, she faltered badly in the Italian Open Round of 32, and this time, her rankings are set to take an extremely big hit.

Tennis star Iga Swiatek was the defending champion here after winning the Italian Open 2024, and now she is set to lose 935 points, which will make her sit in the number fourth spot in the WTA rankings. This showcases that she might face world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals of the French Open 2025, where she will be looking to defend her title.

“I feel like I worked on some technical stuff on my serve and my forehand. I know that I haven’t been always able to implement that on the match court, which is not perfect. This is tennis. I don’t have, like, three months to change some technical thing, then your body just remembers it. It would be much easier if we had a system like that. I feel like I wasn’t so good at implementing it all the time. Sometimes I changed the way I play in a way I shouldn’t have done, and it’s completely kind of on me,” said Swiatek, after losing in Italian Open 2025.

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