Iga Swiatek is approaching Wimbledon 2024 slightly in a different way this time round after skipping all of the tune-up tournaments, however the high seed thinks it’s the absolute best transfer for her as she bids to win her maiden crown on the All England Membership.
For all her achievements over the previous couple of seasons, the five-times Grand Slam champion stays largely unproven on grass courts with not one of the 22 singles titles in her huge cupboard approaching the floor.
Having been handed a quarter-final defeat by wildcard Elina Svitolina final yr, the 23-year-old Pole will look to enhance on that when she begins her Wimbledon marketing campaign in opposition to former world quantity 4 Sofia Kenin on Tuesday.
“Initially, for certain it was tough,” Swiatek advised reporters when requested how she felt about her Wimbledon preparations on Saturday.
“I’m joyful that I got here right here early as a result of there’s a enormous distinction between the grass that we’ve in our personal nation, for instance, and right here. Day after day I felt like I’m getting extra rhythm and I can actually really feel the ball higher. I really feel good. For certain we approached this yr slightly bit in a different way principally due to the quantity of matches that I performed within the first a part of the season,” she mentioned.
Contemporary off her fourth French Open crown, the world primary withdrew from the Berlin Women Open earlier within the month, citing general bodily and psychological fatigue after an intense 9 weeks.
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“I may most likely squeeze in yet one more event earlier than Wimbledon, however I don’t know if I’d be capable to bodily be in a good condition until the top of the yr,” Swiatek added.
“You sort of have to decide on what’s higher additionally for the longer term. I believe that was a wiser choice this yr. Subsequent yr we’re additionally going to see how my outcomes are going to seem like earlier than Roland-Garros as a result of all of it comes as much as the ultimate choice,” she mentioned.
Swiatek, whose father Tomasz is a former Olympic rower and competed within the males’s quadruple sculls on the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, confirmed that she is going to take part within the Paris 2024 Olympics.
“It means quite a bit… We’ve got sort of an Olympic custom in my household. Olympics have been all the time this sort of event that was a very powerful, sort of above every little thing else,” she mentioned.
“From my facet as knowledgeable, I’m going to deal with it as every other event, to maintain my routines, be capable to carry out my finest. However it could imply clearly quite a bit,” she added.
Wimbledon runs from July 1-14, whereas the Paris 2024 Olympics will happen from July 26-Aug. 11.