“We know what we are doing”: Swiatek hopeful Wimbledon title will silence haters
The Pole’s title in London was her first in over 12 months
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Heading into Wimbledon 2025, Iga Swiatek had plenty of pressure on her shoulders. Not so much to win the event – expectations were low, after all, given she had never won a title on grass. Generally, however, the Pole was under some of the toughest scrutiny of her career, courtesy of a 12-month titleless streak.
Having broken her drought in dramatic fashion, thrashing Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in Saturday’s final, she hopes that her success at Wimbledon will silence some of the criticism she has been receiving.
“The past months, how the media sometimes describe me, and I got to say unfortunately Polish media, how they treated me and my team, it wasn’t really pleasant,” she explained.
“I hope they will just leave me alone and let me do my job because obviously you can see that we know what we are doing, and I have the best people around me. I have already proved a lot. I know people want more and more, but it’s my own process and my own life and my own career.
“Hopefully I’m going to have a freedom from them, as well, to let me do my job the way I want it.”
Wimbledon title ranks among most-special Grand Slam victories for Swiatek
By winning on the grass at Wimbledon, Iga Swiatek became the eighth player in the Open era to win Grand Slam women’s singles titles on all three surfaces, after Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Hana Mandlikova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Ashleigh Barty.
After her victory, the Polish player, who won Roland-Garros (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), the US Open (2022), and Wimbledon (2025), was asked to rank her victory on the London grass compared to her other Grand Slam victories. While she declined to give a definitive answer, Swiatek did offer a hint.
“I think the fact that it’s on grass, for sure it makes it more special, I would say, and more unexpected,” she said. “So for sure, it feels like the emotions are bigger because on Roland Garros I know I can play well, and I know I can, like, show it on every year. Here, I wasn’t sure of that. I also needed to prove that to myself.
“I’m not going to rank them ’cause I have so much also respect to the other tournaments. I worked really hard to win all the other slams. So there’s no point to choose between them.
“But this one and the US Open for sure feel like just, I don’t know, better because no one expected that. It wasn’t a relief. It was more of just good tennis and working to make it happen, yeah, without this baggage on your shoulders.”
