"Seemed strange to me that he worked with the players for about a year then it ended": Caroline Wozniacki's dad found Swiatek-Fissette link-up bizarre to start

Iga Swiatek has the perfect candidate for her new coach right under her nose and despite it being rumoured, it isn't Caroline Wozniacki's father Piotr as he gave his view on her current situation ironically to Polish media this past week.

Swiatek parted ways with Wim Fissette after a difficult time of it which saw her fail to make it past the Quarter-Finals in any of her most recent WTA Tour events. She was also beaten by Magda Linette in the opening round of the Miami Open.

Swiatek, the six-time Grand Slam champion suffered an opening round defeat for the first time in 73 tournaments in the process. The duo initially started working together back in October 2024 but the Pole initially struggled losing her Queen of Clay moniker also losing Roland Garros from her resume.

But while that happened, she clicked at Wimbledon winning a Grand Slam that she had little to no success in during the past few years. She also won Cincinnati and also Korea Open titles. But she has made a stuttering start to the year and Wozniacki said that it was a bit of a fraught partnership from the start in his view as Swiatek went from having a stable coaching setup for years to a coach who has jumped around from player to player.

"I’m not. I have to admit that when he was hired as Iga’s coach, I wasn’t a fan," said Wozniacki about his surprise surrounding Fissette's dismissal with Sport.pl.

“I don’t know him, I have nothing against him, but it seemed strange to me that he worked with the players for about a year and then it ended. That’s a very short time. With Iga, it was longer anyway, almost a year and a half. But there haven’t been any good results lately.”

But asked about the rumours, he said that while he's happy to advise her camp as he did when she hired Tomasz Wiktorowski, he won't be doing much else albeit technically by saying this he did not rule out some involvement in doing so.

“I’ll be happy to advise Iga and her father if they think it’s worth calling me,” he said. “I gave them good advice once before. That was a few years ago – when they hired Tomasz Wiktorowski. I told them he would definitely be a very good choice, and he was.”

But he believes that Swiatek's next coach is under her nose and is one that she knows well especially through Billie Jean King Cup as well as being a former hitting partner for former forerunner Aga Radwanska when she was on the tour between 2011-2018 in Dawid Celt.

“They should not look too far afield, because the best option is right under their noses,” he said. “That’s Dawid Celt. I’m sure someone will say, ‘What? Who has he managed?’ But that doesn’t matter.

“What matters is that he knows Iga, that he can communicate with her, that they both think in Polish. And he’s an ambitious bloke, and a really promising coach. I feel it would work out.”