“A Lesson for the Remainder of My Life”

“I really feel like this match will give me confidence for the remainder of my profession that there is all the time potential, I imply, an opportunity to beat and work on what you do or what you are feeling,” she mentioned. “You possibly can all the time get higher. Generally it is form of fairly simple, however we are likely to make it extra difficult in our heads.”

Swiatek says that after the US Open she put in an amazing quantity of effort to get her sport buzzing – that onerous work has now paid off.

“I am actually glad that I simply targeted on laborious work. It form of paid off – perhaps not immediately, however I am glad that after the US Open I simply bought again to fundamentals and simply labored actually laborious tennis-wise. I am going to simply proceed to try this,” she mentioned, including:

“For certain profitable this trophy is one thing that may, yeah, train me form of a lesson for the remainder of my life.”

Cancun the subsequent massive problem

With that satisfying expertise beneath her belt, Swiatek will head to the WTA Finals in Cancun with wind in her sails. With the year-end No.1 rating on the road, she hopes she will maintain the vitality excessive.

“Cancun is admittedly vital match,” she mentioned. “I wish to prepare and likewise form of proceed the work I have been doing after US Open when it comes to method and what I wish to enhance on courtroom.

“I will spend two weeks house and I will in all probability observe, like, eight days, and the remaining are going to be days off. I do not assume there’s going to be plenty of time for me to do something extra. I am going to simply deal with work and on the final match of the season.”

Subsequent time at No.1, Swiatek will deal with it higher

Talking of dealing with the stress of being No.1, Swiatek admitted that there have been occasions throughout her run of 75 weeks on the prime of the WTA Tour that the stress weighed her down.

She believes she’ll be higher at dealing with it if she will get again to the highest.

“For certain, there was plenty of stress throughout previous seasons,” she mentioned. “I might say the progress that I’ve made was fairly quick and I form of wasn’t anticipating to change into world No. 1 final 12 months. I needed to cope with plenty of issues and form of develop up tennis-wise actually rapidly – for certain, the stress and every part that is occurring exterior of the courts, it is form of, laborious to cope with typically.”

Swiatek says it’s all a part of the enjoyable.

“However that is a part of the game and we’ve got to discover ways to alter and easy methods to, like, actually maintain specializing in tennis and never the entire stuff round,” she mentioned. “I might say if I might change into world No. 1 once more, for certain I feel I might be form of extra ready for every part. It isn’t like I might change some issues precisely, however I might know easy methods to cope with them at this level.

“I feel if I study and take classes from it, it will be simpler. However for certain the very first thing is getting there. I am going to simply strive to try this. For now, step-by-step. I am going to simply rejoice this trophy.”