By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday June 5, 2024
Paris – Iga Swiatek proved as soon as once more in the course of the Paris fortnight that she is properly and really the queen of clay. However relating to grass, properly, the five-time main champion remains to be very a lot unproven. That isn’t to say she isn’t one of many gamers who may win it this 12 months.
Swiatek presently owns a 9-4 total report on the Championships, not dangerous in any respect however actually iot pales compared to her gorgeous 35-2 report at Roland-Garros. Final 12 months was the Pole’s finest efficiency but at SW19 – Swiatek reached the quarterfinals earlier than falling to Elina Svitolina in three units.
The one massive subject for Swiatek, in fact, is that Wimbledon begins in a mere three weeks, which doesn’t give her a lot time to relaxation and get better after a protracted and bodily taxing slog on the clay.
“I feel to play some matches earlier than Wimbledon can be good, however then again, I performed mainly nearly each match in Stuttgart, Madrid, Rome and right here, and so we have to maintain my physicality, as properly. So we’ll see what the plans are,” Swiatek mentioned.
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A former Wimbledon ladies champion, Swiatek says she felt that enjoying a lead-up occasion in Dangerous Homburg helped her final 12 months, however extra importantly, she thinks she’ll profit from having beefed up her serve this season.
“I feel the most important progress I could make on grass proper now could be utilizing my serves,” she mentioned, “but additionally I do not anticipate rather a lot. The balls are totally different. General tennis is totally different on grass. I will simply see and I will work laborious to play higher there.”
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Swiatek additionally has the Olympics to consider later this summer season, and the Pole is not going to need to miss the possibility to convey house Olympic Gold for her nation. She joked that her grass court docket tennis may profit if she misplaced early at Roland-Garros, however that’s one thing she clearly isn’t prepared to do (simply ask Naomi Osaka).
“I simply have to proceed the work that I have been doing,” she mentioned, of her grass recreation. “It has been simpler yearly, particularly with my coach [Tomasz Wiktorowski] who, with Radwanska, that they had nice outcomes on grass and he form of feels grass properly.
“For positive it is an enormous problem,” she mentioned. “If I’d lose right here earlier, possibly I’d be capable to play two extra weeks on grass after which be a greater grass participant, but when I’d select, I really like enjoying on clay, so I am not going to surrender that ever.”
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