The number 1 in the world in the world Iga Swiatek He announced this Friday a radical change in his sports career. The Polish woman reported that ended her relationship with her coach Tomasz Wiktorowskiwhere she came to dominate the WTA circuit.
Swiatek announced on his social networks that they were both ending a relationship that lasted three successful seasons, since the beginning of 2022. Among them, Swiatek won three of his four Roland Garros, a US Open, an Olympic bronze, he has become a solid world number 1 (123 weeks this Monday, seventh player in history in this section), won nineteen of her twenty-two WTA titles and signed the best winning streak of the century on the circuit with 37 in a row.
“After three years of achieving the greatest success of my career with my coach Tomasz Wiktorowski, We decided to separate. I want to thank you very much and appreciate the work we have done together.“Swiatek said in a statement posted on his social networks.
Iga reflected on the three seasons he shared with his coach. “It came when I needed big changes and a new approach to my game. “His experience, his analytical and strategic attitude and his immense knowledge of tennis have helped me achieve achievements that I could not have dreamed of even though we have only been working together for a few months,” explained Swiatek.
The Polish coach, in the past also the coach of the first great Polish star like Agnieszka Radwanska, became the key for Iga to dream big. “Our goal is to be number 1 in the world and my coach was the first to say it. We set very high goals for ourselves and we played every tournament with the challenge of winning it. This is how we won many tournaments and four Grand Slams,” said Swiatek.
In fact, the separation between Swiatek and Wiktorowski ended the duo that dominated the WTA in recent years, waiting to see the steps that the world number 1 is making now to respond to the strong push that Aryna Sabalenka is making aiming back to the top of the rankings. Swiatek has had a brilliant first half of the seasonwith titles at Roland Garros, Doha, Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome, as well as bronze in Paris, but the last few months have been difficult for him.
The results kept him out of the grass tour and North American hard court tour and Swiatek announced in recent weeks his casualties in Beijing and Tokyo for personal reasons. He will not play either Billie Jing King Cup Finals, with Poland rivaling Spain in the quarterfinals. With her presence in Wuhan next week unconfirmed, although it seems complicated, it remains to be seen if Swiatek will play in the WTA Finals at the beginning of November or if she will end the season early.
Source: La Verdad
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