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Iga Swiatek witnessed a disappointing end to her 2025 season as she failed to reach the semifinals of the WTA Finals. However, Swiatek's coach, Wim Fissette, counted the season 'special,' highlighting her performance at Wimbledon, and called her a 'legend'.
Despite winning her maiden Wimbledon title and achieving the Year-End No. 2, fans were disappointed with the Pole's overall season, which is the standard Swiatek has set for herself in the last couple of years. After a poor first half of the season, where she fell to No. 5 in the rankings, Iga Swiatek made a strong comeback, winning at Wimbledon, Cincinnati, and Seoul.
The 24-year-old entered the season-ending WTA Finals in Riyadh as the No. 2 and began her campaign with a dominant win over Madison Keys. However, she lost her next two group stage matches against Elena Rybakina and Amanda Anisimova, missing out on the semifinals.
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Swiatek lost 17 singles matches this season, eight more than her 2024 losses. However, in a recent interview with Sport.Pl, her coach, Wim Fissette, claimed the 2025 season as a special one, calling her Wimbledon glory "the most spectacular performance".
"Whatever happens, Iga is already a legend," Wim Fissette said. "The 2025 season will always be special. You can win ten titles in a year, but the Wimbledon victory and the way it was achieved will be remembered for years. No one can ever take that away from her; it was Iga's most spectacular performance."
Talking about Iga Swiatek's plan for the next season, Wim Fissette revealed that the six-time Grand Slam winner wants to win more than one Major and regain her No.1 rankings.
"The priorities haven’t changed. Iga wants to be the best in the world, so that’s the goal of the whole team. We want to win a Grand Slam tournament, although hopefully more than one. We also aspire to have more victories in WTA 1000 tournaments. Our intention is to get as close as possible to No. 1, and we know exactly what we have to do. Iga Swiatek is still very young; she needs to improve gradually and incorporate new elements into her game. We’ll achieve this by balancing her schedule a bit more, giving her a few extra weeks of training,” he added.
Iga Swiatek to wrap up her 2025 season after Billie Jean King Cup playoffs
After finishing outside the top four at the WTA Finals, Iga Swiatek returned home to represent Poland at the Billie Jean King Cup. She made the headlines by defeating Elyse Tse of New Zealand in the play-off round in just 43 minutes.
The World No.2 registered a dominating 6-0, 6-1 win over the World No. 909, to wrap up her 2025 campaign and also Poland's 3-0 win over New Zealand. Before Iga Swiatek, Poland had taken a 2-0 lead after Katarzyna Kawa's and Linda Klimovicova-Martyna Kubka's wins. Poland will next face Romania in their second and last play-off match on Sunday.
Meanwhile, this was Iga Swiatek's first appearance at the Billie Jean King Cup this year. She is on an 11-match winning streak at the premier international team competition in women's tennis, having last lost a match in 2019. After the BJK Cup, Swiatek will next be seen in action at the United Cup 2026, a mixed team WTA 500 event in Australia scheduled to begin on January 2.
