"Carves you up like a Thanksgiving turkey": Former coach of Serena Williams says Iga Swiatek on clay is like 'Martina Hingis on steroids'

Former coach of Serena Williams, Rick Macci has said that Iga Swiatek is by far the best player on the WTA tour and especially on clay said she is like Martina Hingis on steroids.

Swiatek has won Roland Garros three times and has been dominant on the surface and Macci was full of praise for the current World No.1 saying she is a cut above Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff who he admitted have faults compared to Swiatek.

He also had the analogy that Swiatek carves players up like a 'Thanksgiving turkey' albeit continuing to maintain that the tournaments are still wide open in the WTA.

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"Well, first off, Iga [Swiatek] has proven herself with four Slams, you know, mentally she has proven herself and she's not going anywhere. I think she is a cut above, no one's going undefeated, okay, but I think she is much better mentally than the rest of the field. [Aryna] Sabalenka can be in and out, [Elena] Rybakina can kind of be sprayed around a little bit. [Coco Gauff's] forehand is a little dodgy," said Macci on Match Point Canada's tennis podcast.

"But I think it's so fluid, the women's game because there's not a lot of people who have been there done that. You know what I am saying, [players] that have that pedigree and won two or three or four or five Grand Slams. So every female goes in there, has a shot.

"Maybe not on clay, because on clay Iga is something like [Martina] Hingis on steroids, she just carves off angles and carves you up like a Thanksgiving turkey. She is by far the best, but those would be the people I would keep an eye on. But it's so wide open, and all the females know that.

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