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Iga Swiatek closed 2023 with a victory at the WTA Finals, also regaining the promo place in the WTA ranking. This season she won her 3rd Roland Garros, balancing a very positive season. However, she received some unjustified and gratuitous criticism, for some of the negative moments she encountered during the season.
Iga admitted to feeling the pressure to defend her points and her titles, which resulted in a lack of will and determination, as she herself highlighted in an interview with puntodebreak.com. “That period was hard.
When the season started, everyone was wondering how I would play after such a successful year, so I felt that any result I had would be insufficient, anything other than winning the tournament. Instead of wanting to win, I hoped not to lose.
It was not something constructive, I started the events in the Middle East with a different approach.”
Iga Swiatek told her season
In the same interview, the Pole explained: “This has been the most difficult year of my career, although my possibilities are also increasing.
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