Shaky Swiatek good to go for Australian Open

For Iga Swiatek, whose confidence has been shaken by slipping to world No. 2 and more so by serving a one-month doping ban around the WTA Finals in November, the 2025 Australian Open may be the most defining tournament of her career so far.

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"I'll be good," the 23-year-old, who wants to dominate women's tennis once again, said in response to her loss to American Coco Gauff in the United Cup final on Jan 5, trying to dispel concerns about an apparent issue with her left thigh ahead of the start of the Melbourne Grand Slam on Jan 12.

The five-time Slam champion, whose best performance on the Australian Open's hard courts was the 2022 semi-final she lost to American Danielle Collins, tested positive in an out-of-competition sample in August for trimetazidine.

But the International Tennis Integrity Agency, which runs tennis' anti-doping programme, accepted that it was caused by contamination of her sleep medication.

Swiatek was provisionally suspended from Sept 12 until Oct 4, missing three tournaments, and served the last eight days of the ban after playing at November's WTA Finals in Riyadh.