Poland’s
Iga Swiatek is reportedly considering taking a long
break after
French Open. The 23-year-old, who is regarded as one of the best
players currently playing in women’s tennis in the singles category, is going through
a difficult phase according to her own high standards.
This year, Swiatek has featured in seven events but has not
managed to play in the final of any one of them. That is very interesting considering
the fact that she has played in the quarterfinal of each of them and in the semifinal
of four of them. Her most recent defeat came in the semifinal of the ongoing
Madrid Open where she lost to America’s Coco Gauff in straight sets with a
score of 6-1, 6-1.
During the match, Swiatek looked exhausted, and at one stage,
she was seen crying while having a towel on her face. As per the latest report coming
from the Polish media outlet
Przeglad Sportowy, the reigning world number two
is considering taking a long break from tennis. The report stated that the
five-time Grand Slam winner, who has not won any competition since lifting the
French Open last year, will play in the upcoming Rome Open and then in the
French Open but if the results does not go her way, she will take a long break
and prepare for the US Open. The report stated that the player's team makes the decision.
If the news is true, it will mean that Swiatek might consider skipping
Wimbledon this year, which will be the first major event she will skip ever since she started playing at the highest level in 2019. Talking
after the match, the four-time French Open winner admitted that nothing had gone
her way in the match against Gauff, and she had very little idea why everything
went wrong for her on the day when she was competing to secure a spot in the
final for the first time this season.
“Honestly, there’s nothing like to walk through because it
was all pretty much the same from the beginning to the end,” she said. “I
couldn’t really get my level up. Coco played good, but, yeah, I think it’s on
me that I didn’t really move well, I wasn’t ready to play back the shots with
heaviness. With that kind of game, it was pretty bad. I think I pushed kind of
with my head for more than I even should, tennis-wise. Today for sure
everything kind of collapsed, both tennis-wise and I feel like I wasn’t even in
the right place with my feet before the shots. I wish I would have moved
better, because I think that would get me any opportunity to bounce back,
because this is usually what happens.”