Iga Swiatek has said that she is pleased with her stable form at Roland Garros after defeating Emma Raducanu 6-1 6-2.
The four-time champion moved into the third round with a dominant victory over the Brit as she played some incredible tennis.
After her victory Swiatek spoke about the match and why she plays emphatic tennis when playing Raducanu, “Well, from the beginning, I knew what I wanted to do, so I just did it. I had a good time on the court, and I felt the game pretty well, so I just went for it,” Swiatek explained in her press conference.
“Well, there are players that just have the ball that it’s for some of us it’s a little bit easier, others don’t like it. You know, there are some players that, I don’t know, you just kind of know what you’re going to do a little bit. It’s not like… I just think it’s a kind of matchup. That’s why in tennis sometimes it’s hard to judge everything, like, players’ shape and everything.
“Because there are some matches where, I don’t know, this girl likes to play with this one, it’s going to be pretty one sided, but this girl doesn’t like to play with the same one. It doesn’t really matter. I know Emma can also play great tennis, because like when we played in Stuttgart, it was, like, pretty intense and tight. I was ready for everything. And I’m happy that I was focused on myself to just kind of play my game and then lead with it.”
The defending champion has been emphatic in her opening two rounds, only dropping nine games so far.
It makes a change for Swiatek considering she played without confidence in Rome as she went out in the third round to Danielle Collins.
After her win in Paris Swiatek admitted she is focusing less on her mistakes as she returns to the scene of her past glories, “Well, I focused the match on mistakes in past tournaments, and I was kind of hard on myself. So it’s never a good way to go, because you kind of stop trusting your shots,” the Pole stated.
“In tennis, I don’t know, I feel like it’s pretty mental. You need to trust them. Yeah, I just, like, honestly it took me a lot of time to, even though my team was kind of telling me what I might change, I kind of didn’t believe that. I had to fit it on my own skin. Sometimes the mistakes that I do, I just need to make them to suddenly come to some conclusions. So after Rome, I was, like, finally aware that I’m doing something wrong.
“It’s easier then to change it rather than being, like, I don’t know, whatever, maybe next tournament’s going to be different. And so I used this time after Rome to do that. But as I said, like, I’m not expecting anything. I’m just trying to work day by day.”
Elaborating on her form at Roland Garros Swiatek said that she is pleased with how stable her form is so far ahead of the remaining challenges, “Well, just the stability of my form and the focus I had and that I feel a bit more energy, I would say, positive energy,” the Pole said.
Next up for Swiatek is Romanian Jaqueline Cristian in the third round on Friday.
