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Iga Swiatek: "My goal is to be constant throughout the season"

Iga Swiatek celebrated her second title on the WTA tour at the WTA 500 event in Adelaide. Now the surprise winner of the French Open 2020 would like to "consistently" perform well in the upcoming tournaments.

by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Feb 27, 2021, 06:20 pm

Iga Swiatek celebrated her second WTA title at the Adelaide WTA 500 event
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Iga Swiatek celebrated her second WTA title at the Adelaide WTA 500 event

It was one of the really big sensational runs that tennis has seen in recent years. The run of Iga Swiatek at the French Open 2020. As world number 54. The 19-year-old Polish woman played a largely blank slate in an impressive manner for her first WTA title - and at the same time for her first title on the very big Grand Slam stage.

Swiatek didn't even have to give up a set in the late autumn of the previous year at Bois de Bolougne, the 6: 1 and 6: 2 over title contender Simona Halep in the round of 16, probably the best proof of the impressive dominance that Swiatek had shown in Roland Garros 2020 . The Polish woman shouldn't have a similar success run at the next Grand Slam, the Australian Open 2021 - now, a week later, the 19-year-old was able to celebrate her second WTA title in Adelaide.

Constancy the big goal

Proof of good form, as Swiatek stated after the clear final victory over Belinda Bencic: "Obviously things are going well for me. Mentally I look very strong, but the key to all of this lies in the level I am on the pitch I feel like sometimes I have weeks when everything is perfect for me and it's difficult to beat me. We're working very hard to make this happen as often as possible. "

Accordingly, it is now the Polish woman's big goal to bring such performances onto the pitch more consistently in the future, as Swiatek emphasized: "Our big goal is to play consistently throughout the season. We can do what we have achieved this week I can do it, but I still have certain things to work on. All of this can be solved with planning and a lot of work. "

by Michael Rothschädl

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