Swiatek is currently on the entry list for the Berlin WTA 500 tournament, which begins on 13 June, but it seems unlikely that she will play. I actually like the part that I have no expectations there. Yeah, but honestly, grass is always tricky. “My coach believes I can win more matches on grass,” she said. She has consistently reasoned that the conditions were slower that year. Swiatek actually won her only junior grand slam title at Wimbledon in 2018 but she does not rate herself highly on the surface yet. The tennis season moves quickly and on Monday the grass season begins, a new frontier for Swiatek to conquer as she attempts to extend her streak. I would love to be in a better shape than I was when I was playing against her, just have more variety and more abilities and to win against Ash. Iga Swiatek has now won 35 consecutive matches. Swiatek says that Barty has supportively texted her numerous times since her retirement and, when asked if she wishes she could have tested her current game against Barty’s, she was never more animated. That they so narrowly missed each other in top form, and they were unable to build a rivalry, has to be the biggest missed opportunity in the WTA’s recent history. Since Barty’s retirement Swiatek has not lost a match. This season started with one complete, extremely consistent world No 1, Australia’s Ashleigh Barty, playing the best tennis of her career and tearing up the tour. Even in 2020, I still felt like I needed a plan B in case tennis is not gonna work out.”
I felt like I was working two jobs at a time. “Even when I was 18, I still went to high school and I was really focused on that.
That insecurity drove the choices she made, most notably her decision to remain in school until she finished high school: “I always had a plan B,” she said. I like maths and my brain usually thinks about probabilities, so I felt that maybe it’s not sure and it would be hard to make it happen.”
The probability of me becoming a tennis superstar was pretty small.
“Because thinking logically, when you take my country, how many people have succeeded, it was only Agnieszka basically. “It was pretty hard for me to believe that I’m gonna be world No 1,” she said. She may have been a perfectionist who always felt that she could do better, but the dearth of examples from her part of the world made such success far more difficult to imagine. Even as Swiatek displayed her early promise as a junior, it took a long time for her to believe that she could achieve the career that she is currently building.
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