The 2025 tennis season has unfolded like a never-ending marathon. It has pushed players to the brink both physically and mentally; week after week, players have hauled themselves across continents, adapting from hard courts to clay to grass to hard courts again with barely a moment to breathe. Players have been pushed to their limits, enduring fatigue, injury, and mid-tournaments. Not even World No. 2 Iga Swiatek has escaped the aftereffects.

Tennis is a sport that has always valued endurance, but this year the grind of the tour has seemingly taken a heavier turn, with the likes of Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka all feeling the impact late into the season. Swiatek previously even suggested she would accept the ensuing points penalty and skip mandatory tournaments if the status quo co

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