Iga Swiatek shares her emotions after winning in Paris

He Roland Garros 2020 of Iga Swiatek it has already gone down in history. At 19, the Pole won all 14 sets she played and lost just 28 games in seven matches, the most dominant edition in Paris since Graf’s title in 1988, in which the German legend lost just 20 games. After lifting the title and a few hours later, with a bit more calm, the Pole sat down with the WTA Insider podcast, to analyze these 15 days and the work done to achieve it.

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Among her most interesting answers, Iga acknowledged that she draws a lot on her own instinct to solve tennis problems but at this Roland Garros she was faithful to the plans of her technical team, something that is not so common for her in other tournaments.

“It’s easy to say that you focus on your legs, mobility or tactics, but I think the easy solutions are the best. I have done what my team told me to do. I trusted them throughout the tournament. I am aware that I have a great instinct, but actually in this tournament I think the tactic helped me a lot. Sometimes I just don’t think and play my tennis because I generally know how to play and I have my own idea of ​​how it should work. In previous tournaments though Coach Piotr gave me tactics, he always did exactly the opposite. In this tournament I trusted him and I did 100% in each game what he told me. I think that to be successful it is necessary to have a combination of instincts with intelligent and tactical play to achieve something. I know that I have quality and I know that I should work a little more tactically. I think that in this tournament I did everything quite well.

Along with his technician Piotr, Swiatek also works with a psychologist for some time, with whom he has been speaking every day.

“It’s not easy because you have to always be attentive to what you think on the court. It’s not easy because you have to be super concentrated not to let your mind fly. The hardest thing was believing that I could really calm down and achieve something important. Sometimes I used to overthink and analyze things for an hour; the smallest things that I thought. When I started to believe that it is not that difficult and that the easy solutions are going to work, it was easier for me. But at first, during the On a tour of the United States we were talking every day for an hour: what to change, how to think. But actually, the easiest things are the ones that worked best. It’s strange, but that’s the way it is. “

Among her most personal sensations, the Polish woman shared those thoughts that every tennis player has when she doubts herself and how that has been able to change before and after this Roland Garros 2020.

“Well, I never realized that. There wasn’t a moment. But I also realized that sometimes I felt bad and other times my confidence level was very low; I thought I was not going to make it. In fact, I had some thoughts like those in Cincinnati after my first round loss. So even though I knew I have potential and I knew I can win big tournaments, because I won junior Wimbledon in 2018, I still had my doubts. I think I knew in the back of my head that I can do really good things on the track, but it’s also difficult for me to be confident all the time. “