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Iga Swiatek suggests she uses different tactics game-wise when playing Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina but highlights that the mindset and focus is absolutely the same when she is facing those two superstars.
Last year, Swiatek, Sabalenka and Rybakina delivered some of the best matches of the season in matches between them.
Against 25-year-old Sabalenka, 22-year-old Swiatek has a 6-3 head-to-head. Last year, Swiatek defeated Sabalenka in the finals at the WTA Finals and Stuttgart but lost to the Belarusian in the Madrid final. After the 2023 season ended, the Swiatek and Sabalenka Madrid final was voted the WTA Final of the Year.
On the other side, Swiatek has two wins and three losses against Rybakina. After losing to Rybakina three times last year, Swiatek got her revenge on Saturday when she beat the Kazakh in the Doha final.
This week at a WTA 1000 event in Dubai, Swiatek, Sabalenka and Rybakina are competing in the same tournament for the first time since the Australian Open. In her pre-tournament press conference, Swiatek was asked what’s the difference in playing Sabalenka and Rybakina.
“Well, their game. They’re playing differently. That’s the main difference you focus on when you go on a match…
