By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday Might 19, 2025
This 12 months’s Roland-Garros seeds will look quite a bit totally different than they did final 12 months on the ladies’s facet.
Eventual champion Iga Swiatek was seeded No.1 final 12 months, however the Pole drops to No.5 in Monday’s WTA rankings, which is able to decide the seeds for subsequent week’s French Open.
Swiatek strikes exterior of the Prime-4 for the primary time for the reason that week of February twenty first, 2022, when she was No. 8. The four-time Roland-Garros slid again from No.2, when she was handed by new No.2 Coco Gauff, No.3 Jessica Pegula and eventual champion Jasmine Paolini, who is available in at No.4.
That signifies that Swiatek might face any of the highest 4 seeds as quickly because the quarterfinals, which could make her try and win a fourth consecutive crown on the Parisian clay a bit harder.
The Pole shouldn’t grasp her head although. She was contained in the Prime-2 for 173 consecutive weeks, and held the highest rating for 125 of them.
Paolini: Will get her fifteenth win at WTA 1000 occasions. She had 14 WTA 1000 all of final 12 months.Will head to RG with the No.4 rating, matching career-high. pic.twitter.com/n3AztGzXC9
— TennisNow (@Tennis_Now) May 17, 2025
At Roland-Garros, Swiatek is a mixed 5-0 in opposition to the 4 gamers that shall be seeded above her, however everyone knows that issues have performed out in a different way for Swiatek on the clay, the place she is going to enter Roland-Garros with no title below her belt for the primary time since 2020. Swiatek is 6-3 on the clay to date this season.
People Peyton Stearns and Hailey Baptiste reached milestones this week.
After changing into the primary participant in historical past to win three consecutive matches by way of third-set tiebreakers, Stearns rises 14 locations from No. 42 and makes her Prime 30 debut at No. 28.
The most important mover on this week’s Prime 100 is 23-year-old American Hailey Baptiste, who certified for Rome and reached the third spherical, The DMV native climbs 20 spots to a brand new profession excessive of No. 70.
