Iga Swiatek presented herself in a rather particular way at the media day of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, stating that she will treat this event as a training tournament. In practice, main and almost exclusive eyes on the US Open, the next big goal of the world number one. It was, of course, the tennis player herself who explained what she meant in more detail.
“I’m taking it step by step, I’m taking it slowly. I know it won’t be perfect from the start but I’ve had a couple of days to adapt to the surface. I try to work every day with the intention of going on court knowing that I can do better. I’ll approach this competition as a training tournament, not in the sense that I’m not interested, but because I want to put into practice everything I’ve tried lately in my tennis to play matches,” she explained.
Iga also talked about the change of balls chosen by the tournament organizers (they will be the Wilson Regular Duty, the ones used in the 2022 edition): “We haven’t played with this ball for two years, another thing we have to pay attention to when we go on court. They are lighter. I remember that I won the US Open in 2022 with this ball, I don’t know how I did it. It was crazy, could you…
