{"id":117190,"date":"2025-05-20T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117190\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:48:09","slug":"danielle-collins-admits-what-shes-found-difficult-after-beating-iga-swiatek-in-italy-that-wasnt-as-fun-as-i-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117190\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Collins admits what she’s found ‘difficult’ after beating Iga Swiatek in Italy, ‘that wasn’t as fun as I imagined’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Danielle Collins beat Iga Swiatek for just the second time at the Italian Open after six consecutive losses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collins and Swiatek have a complex relationship<\/a>, dating back to the Paris Olympics<\/a> where they had a tense exchange on court.<\/p>\n

However, the Pole had dominated their head-to-head before Collins made career history by beating Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite the breakthrough moment for Collins<\/a>, a lot of the attention has been on Swiatek\u2019s recent mistakes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"ItalianPhoto by Foto Olimpik\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesDanielle Collins admits what she\u2019s found difficult after beating Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n

Collins beat Swiatek<\/a>, 6-1 7-5, ending her opponent\u2019s Italian Open<\/a> title defence in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When reliving that victory over Swiatek<\/a>, Collins told the Tennis Channel that she actually was disappointed with the reaction to her win.<\/p>\n

Collins highlighted that she felt that people were more focussed on Swiatek\u2019s errors rather than praising herself. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I played really well against Iga,\u201d said Collins. \u201cI didn\u2019t get a ton of credit for it after the match, of course. It was more about how poorly she played and everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat can make it difficult to be able to celebrate your wins sometimes, when you feel like you have a good match and are playing well and it\u2019s just like whatever. So I was happy about it but the feeling with that wasn\u2019t as fun as I imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Could Danielle Collins be a dark horse for Roland Garros?<\/p>\n

After falling down the rankings to world number 46, Collins will be unseeded for Roland Garros<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Collins has endured mixed results at the Parisian major over the years, reaching the quarter-finals in 2020.<\/p>\n

However, outside of that year Collins has been unable to surpass the third round and suffered a second round defeat to Olga Danilovic in 2024.<\/p>\n\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\nResult<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2018<\/td>\nFirst Round<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2019<\/td>\nSecond Round<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2020<\/td>\nQuarter-final<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021<\/td>\nThird Round<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\nSecond Round<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023<\/td>\nFirst Round <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024<\/td>\nSecond Round<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Being unseeded means that Collins could play anyone in the first round, including world number five Swiatek.<\/p>\n

Collins is currently focused on the WTA<\/a> 500 tournament in Strasbourg, where she reached the final last year.<\/p>\n

After beating Sofia Kenin<\/a>, Collins now faces former US Open<\/a> champion Emma Raducanu<\/a> in a first-time meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danielle Collins beat Iga Swiatek for just the second time at the Italian Open after six consecutive losses.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[44811,23810,25564,79,1068,16,15,5069],"class_list":{"0":"post-117190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-danielle-collins","9":"tag-iga-swiatek","10":"tag-italian-open","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114540478719685672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}