By Richard Pagliaro| @Tennis_Now | Saturday, August 19, 2023
Iga Swiatek will faucet right into a musical muse to arrange for her US Open title protection.
Requested what she’s most enthusiastic about in her return to New York, Swiatek supplied a one-word response: “Broadway.”
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Within the aftermath of her three-set Cincinnati semifinal loss to Coco Gauff at the moment, Swiatek shared her mission assertion for defending Flushing Meadows: Combat.
“I do know from my expertise already that being a defending champion will not be simple,” Swiatek informed the media in Cincinnati. “I’ll type of take it simple on myself and simply attempt to do every part step-by-step.
“Final yr’s match was additionally actually robust. I may very well be out within the fourth spherical in the event you watched my matches. So I will simply struggle and I will see how it is going to go.”
The world No. 1 will carry a 53-9 document into New York and plans to hit the apply courtroom subsequent week.
“Once I lose, I at all times struggle and I at all times strive my greatest,” Swiatek stated. “Even when I am enjoying not the very best tennis, I can nonetheless play type of even tennis to my opponents. That is a constructive factor.
“However for certain, the secret’s to win. I will simply work on this stuff that I take into consideration as a result of there are issues I wish to do higher on the US Open. Lastly truly I will have time to work on that as a result of this season we did not actually have a whole lot of time to apply.”
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