Swiatek went through reset after Australian Open exit: "I really wanted to focus on getting my expectations lower"

Iga Swiatek suffered a major disappointment at the 2023 Australian Open exiting earlier than she did the previous year and she did a proper reset.

The Polish player entered this year with high expectations both from herself and from fans. She didn't do that well in Australia under a lot of pressure and it affected her quite a bit. She purposely underwent a 'reset' in order to rebalance herself a little bit and she knows exactly what went wrong:

"Exactly what I needed was to reset it a little bit, and I knew what I did wrong at the Australian Open and over my whole stay in Australia. I really wanted to focus on getting my expectations lower and not expect from myself that I'm gonna, you know, play perfectly all the time. Because, yeah, last season was so strange, actually, that it can actually mess up with your head a little bit."

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Speaking further and how she did it, Swiatek explained:

"I really wanted to get both my feet on the ground, just focus on hard work and what I have to do on court. I was really happy because we did. I would say even in the last part of the preseason, our practices were really intense and like, the volume was also pretty big. So I feel like I could really focus on the technical stuff and just improve as a player."

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