Iga Świątek will soon start competing in… Australian Open. Her first opponent will be Katerina Siniakova. This will be the first serious test for the athlete and herself new coach – Wim Fissette. Let us recall that at the beginning of October, the second rocket in the world ended its cooperation with Tomasz Wiktorowskiwith which she started cooperation in December 2021. Together they won 19 high-ranking tournaments WTAincluding four Grand Slams.
The expert assessed the current cooperation between Świątek and Fissett
The Raszyn player started this season with the United Cup, where she advanced together with Hubert Hurkacz, Kamil Majchrzak, Maja Chwalińska, Jan Zieliński and Alicja Rosolska. finalin which they ultimately lost to the United States national team.
Dawid Olejniczak, a Polsat Sport journalist who was a guest of the program on the “Meczyków” YouTube channel, commented on the performance of the Polish national team and Iga Świątek herself. – Very good performance of the Polish team. There's always some dissatisfaction when you lose in the final, but it was nice to see the atmosphere in our team. Despite this defeat, Iga Świątek looked good against Coco Gauff. I see that this cooperation with coach Fissett is bearing fruit for now, he said.
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– Iga gets along well with the coach. You can see it in the way they talk to each other and communicate, he added.
Olejniczak pointed out what was important during the United Cup
According to the former tennis player and Polish representative in the Davis Cup, these matches were an “excellent test” before the Australian Open. – Apart from the first match against the Norwegian, who is 44th in the ranking, she faced Muchova, Boulter, Rybakina and Gauff – he continued.
– What is important is that on a fast surface she beat the strong players of Boulter and, above all, Rybakina, which may give Iga an additional incentive to play for the full prize in Australia, where the surface will also be quite fast. This is what we expect from her. If he's going to a Grand Slam tournament, he'll play for everything, he concluded.
The Australian Open will start on Sunday, January 12 and will last until January 26. Iga Świątek will play the first match on Monday, January 13.
Wim Fissette began his coaching career in 2009. Since then, he has coached 10 tennis players: Kim Clijsters, Sabine Lisicki, Simonê HalepVictoria Azarenka (twice), Petra Kvitova, Sara Errani, Johanna Konta, Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka (twice) and Qinwen Zheng.