High Seed Swiatek to Depend on Psychological Sport and Serve at Wimbledon

Although she admits she wants extra matches on grass, Swiatek elected to not play a warmup occasion on the floor this 12 months as a result of she doesn’t wish to burnout down the stretch in 2024. With the Paris Olympics and the US Open nonetheless to come back, she wants time to decompress.

There’s one bonus to not enjoying a event on grass previous to Wimbledon, nevertheless: it allowed her to point out as much as the grounds even earlier.

“I am joyful that I got here right here early as a result of there’s a large distinction between the grass that we have now in our personal nation, for instance, and right here,” she mentioned. “Day after day I really feel like I am getting extra rhythm and I can actually really feel the ball higher. I really feel good.

“For certain we approached this 12 months a little bit bit otherwise mainly due to the quantity of matches that I performed within the first a part of the season. I may most likely squeeze in yet another event earlier than Wimbledon, however I do not know if I might have the ability to bodily be in a good condition until the top of the 12 months. You type of have to decide on what’s higher additionally for the long run. I believe that was a better choice this 12 months.”

Hoping the Serve Is A Answer

Swiatek, who holds a 9-4 lifetime report at Wimbledon, believes that her new and improved serve may purchase her extra free factors and thus improve her probability for fulfillment in 2024.

“That was additionally one of many targets, to generally win type of by serving and making stress with that,” she mentioned. “I managed to do this on different surfaces. Hopefully on this floor, it should be additionally comparable. Right here it is much more vital to serve effectively, the primary serve. It appeared positive in practices, so I will attempt it out in matches with some stress coming in and all the things. Hopefully this progress that I’ve made goes to repay.”

With a difficult draw, and never a lot time to arrange, Swiatek hopes to depend on her psychological toughness and her capability to adapt to the floor higher than ever. All of it begins on Tuesday with a first-round matchup with Sofia Kenin. Let the video games start…

“I suppose it comes down extra to the psychological facet, I might say, how you are going to have the ability to modify to this floor,” she mentioned. “The participant that does it higher goes to win.”