Iga Swiatek seeks to reclaim her dominance in women's tennis at the 2025 Australian Open after a challenging year marked by a doping ban and consecutive losses to Coco Gauff.
For Iga Swiatek , whose confidence has been shaken by slipping to world number two and more so by serving a one-month doping ban around the WTA Finals in November, the 2025 Australian Open may be the most defining tournament of her career so far.
'I'll be good,' the 23-year-old Swiatek, who wants to dominate women tennis once again, said in response to her loss to American Coco Gauff in Sunday's United Cup final, trying to dispel concerns about an apparent issue with her left thigh ahead of the Melbourne Grand Slam. The five-times grand slam champion, whose best performance on the Australian Open's hard courts was the 2022 semi-final she lost to American Danielle Collins, tested positive in an out-of-competition sample in August for trimetazidine. The ITIA, which runs tennis's anti-doping programme, accepted that it was caused by contamination of her sleep medication. Swiatek was provisionally suspended from Sept. 12 until Oct. 4, missing three tournaments, and served the last eight days of the ban after playing at November's WTA Finals in Riyadh. She won five titles in 2024, including a third straight French Open prior to the suspension, but the tally trails that of her six and eight titles in the two previous seasons. After having tussled all year with the Australian Open defending champion, the big-hitting Aryna Sabalenka, she now lags behind the Belarusian by 1,536 points in the WTA rankings. Although Swiatek leads Gauff 11-3 in their meetings, the loss at the United Cup was the second straight defeat to the American, who is showing signs of mastering her answers to the Pole's heavy forehan
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