But the World number two hit the ground running in 2025 which started with a run to the United Cup final with Poland.

After a strong run to the Australian Open semi-finals, Rennae Stubbs thinks Swiatek has sent an ominous warning to the rest of the tour ahead of the clay court season.

Rennae Stubbs makes a prediction about Iga Swiatek after the Australian Open

Iga Swiatek breezed onto the Australian Open semi-finals after dropping just 14 games.

This is the fewest since Maria Sharapova lost just nine games on her way to the last four at Melbourne Park in 2013.

The Pole looked back to her best in Australia and it took a special performance from eventual champion Madison Keys to defeat her.

After seeing some blistering displays from Swiatek at the Australian Open Stubbs is expecting Swiatek to do the same on her favourite surface of clay, where she usually plays her best tennis.

“I have not seen Iga Swiatek play a better quality match on hard court,” she said on her self-titled podcast. “There were a couple of points here and there, forehand on match point and in the tie break, but we nit pick.

“We nit pick at the person who loses. I honestly think that is the best match I have seen Iga play on hard court ever. And she won the US Open.

“She was hitting the ball so well, everything was going, she arguably should have won the match, she had a match point on her serve and did not hit a bad serve, went to the backhand, went to the weaker side, but Madison crushes back a return.

“There was nothing that you could seriously critique and it makes me think that Iga Swiatek is not going to lose a match on clay this year. If she plays like that on hard courts, good luck on clay everybody.”

What were Iga Swiatek’s clay court results in 2024?

Swiatek was in imperious form throughout the course of the 2024 clay court season.

She suffered defeat to Elena Rybkaina at the Stuttgart Open, and proceeded to win her next three tournaments.

Swiatek won the Madrid Open and Italian Open and she beat Aryna Sabalenka in both finals, before arriving at the French Open.

After escaping defeat against Naomi Osaka in round two, Swiatek stormed through the rest of the French Open and lifted her fourth title in Paris.

In the process she became the first woman since Serena Williams in 2013 to win Madrid, Rome and the French Open in the same season.

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