New coach will have to adapt to a team used to success, says Roddick about Swiatek's appointment

Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 16:31

More questions than answers surround the new link-up between Iga Swiatek and Wim Fissette in the view of Andy Roddick speaking on the latest episode of Served, his weekly podcast.

With the link-up being without any lead in tournaments, it will begin in earnest at the WTA Finals as they aim to hit the ground running. Swiatek will seemingly maintain most of her current team aside from changing the coach and Roddick said that whilst his past assignments have been to help players who perhaps aren't at the top or on the slide, the Pole has won a lot and was World No.1 until this week.

So it is very much an environment used to success so it will be very much how they cope with that going forward in the case of Fissette and how he moulds into the role.

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“New coach coming in is maybe, I don't know, tougher because the player [Iga Swiatek] you're dealing with is currently number one and has been the best player in tennis for the last four years at scale,” Roddick said on Served.

“But going into a very established team that has had a lot of success, that has seen the top of the mountain, wedging yourself in there. Do you want to make a bunch of changes ? Are you trying things out for the rest of the year ? These are all these big macro questions. Have they already signed a deal for two years? Is this a thing that they’re going to try for the rest of the year? There’s a lot of this stuff that we don’t totally know yet,” he added.

“I like the fact that there seems to be a focus, whether it’s coaching, whether it’s taking a break when you have to. I like that the long view seems to be the guiding factor for Swiatek right now."

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