Iga Swiatek Unbothered by Recent Losses to Gauff

Iga Swiatek says recent losses to Coco Gauff haven’t lingered in her mind, insisting she doesn’t approach matches through the lens of head-to-head records.

Asked whether dropping her last few meetings with Gauff has changed anything mentally, Swiatek was clear.

“Honestly, it doesn’t,” she said. “When I was winning against her, it didn’t either. That’s why I guess it was possible for me to continue. Because I wasn’t taking it for granted or coming to a match unfocused.”

Rather than viewing the shift in results as a negative, Swiatek sees it as feedback.

“I guess it kind of tells you something more about the game, or things you should work on or improve,” she said. “Also she improved. The head to head doesn’t really matter.”

Swiatek added that each meeting stands on its own, shaped by timing, form, and conditions rather than past outcomes.

“I just really want to treat every match as a separate story,” she explained. “Every match is also in different conditions. There’s no point to always come back to the last time we played. Madrid was over six months ago. That’s kind of long in tennis life.”

For Swiatek, the focus stays firmly in the present.

“It’s more about how I feel that month or that week, and how she feels, and how we’re going to play against each other,” she said.