Iga Swiatek set to be seeded No. 5 at Roland Garros after Jasmine Paolini's title run in Rome

The Italian's home triumph will move her from No. 5 back to No. 4 on Monday, as Swiatek dips from No. 2 to No. 5.

Published May 17, 2025

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There's going to be a major shake-up on the WTA rankings on Monday after Jasmine Paolini's win at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

Iga Swiatek was already guaranteed to drop from No. 2 to No. 4 following her third-round exit in Rome, where she was the defending champion, but with Paolini going on to win the title at the WTA 1000 event, Swiatek will now dip even further to No. 5.

And it comes at a crucial time, as Monday's rankings are the rankings that Roland Garros will use to make its seeds.

As the No. 5 seed, Swiatek could draw any of the Top 4 seeds in the quarterfinals, and could potentially have to go through three of them in a row to defend her Roland Garros title.

Gauff, Pegula and Paolini will each rise one spot back to their career-high rankings of No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 on Monday.

PROJECTED TOP 8 WOMEN'S SEEDS FOR ROLAND GARROS (based on projected WTA rankings for Monday, May 19th, 2025):

No. 1 seed: Aryna Sabalenka
No. 2 seed: Coco Gauff
No. 3 seed: Jessica Pegula
No. 4 seed: Jasmine Paolini
No. 5 seed: Iga Swiatek
No. 6 seed: Mirra Andreeva
No. 7 seed: Madison Keys
No. 8 seed: Zheng Qinwen

Swiatek has won Roland Garros the last three years in a row, and four of the last five years.

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This will be Swiatek's first time being ranked outside the Top 4 since the week of February 21st, 2022, when she was No. 8—that was the week she kicked off her monster 37-match winning streak, winning the WTA 1000 event in Doha and then rising to No. 4 afterwards. She then rose to No. 2 after winning another WTA 1000 in Indian Wells, then to No. 1 after winning another WTA 1000 in Miami.

Speaking of winning streaks, it's worth noting that wherever she's seeded, Swiatek will probably still be one of the favorites—if not the favorite—at Roland Garros, as she's won her last 21 matches in a row there, lifting the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen the last three years.

She's also won there in four of the last five years.

She's a combined 5-0 (and 10-0 in sets) at Roland Garros against all of the women who will be seeded above her this year, with three straight-set wins over Gauff and one each over Pegula and Paolini (she's never played Sabalenka on the terre battue).

Come back to Tennis.com next week to find out which Top 4 seed Swiatek will draw in her quarter, and her potential path to the title.

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