Iga Swiatek reached the 2nd round at the Australian Open 2025 after beating the Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-3 6-4. In the next round the Polish player will find the Slovakian Rebecca Sramkova waiting for her.
At the press conference, the 4-time Slam champion talked about the difficulties of her last months, especially due to the doping-disqualification and the controversies that followed.
Iga analyzed with sincerity the lesson that the positive doping test gave her, underlining how sometimes it is difficult to have control over some aspects of one’s life, but that this must be accepted.
“Accepting the fact that sometimes you have no control over some aspects of your life, that that situation can happen and you have to deal with it, is already a big lesson. This will help me in other aspects of life, so I would say it was my biggest learning,” explained the Pole.
“It was definitely not the easiest match at the beginning, but I’m happy. I feel like I played better at the end of the second set. I was able to learn from what I did wrong at the beginning, in those moments when she recovered the break from me. I think it was a solid match, I’m happy to have reached the second round.
I think I’ve lost only once in the first round, it was at Wimbledon 2019, I wish I hadn’t played…
