"Starting with confidence" says Swiatek on key to victory

Iga Swiatek continued her onslaught on the Australian Open with another dominant performance and win and after the match, she spoke about what worked for her.

After easily besting Dart in round 1 of the event, Iga Swiatek continued her great play in Melbourne with a stellar performance against Peterson. The score was 6-2 6-2 and the Polish player finds herself in round 3 of the event which she hopes to win. Before the season, the Polish player reverted back to some of the same approaches that won her the Roland Garros and so far it worked.

After the match, she said:

"Just starting the match with confidence was pretty important for me. I felt like I was dominating from the beginning, and after getting a couple of breaks, it was much easier to go forward. That was the key, basically."

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Swiatek is preparing individual game plans for every match which has not always been the case. It's a suggestion of her new coach and speaking about the process she said:

"I was ready for everything. "But I knew she's going to play probably heavy forehand, a lot of topspin. I didn't want to let her play her game on the forehand, so basically I knew that if we were going to, for example, play backhand cross-court, I'm going to have more [of an] advantage."

Explaining more, she said:

"Going forehand on forehand, it may be pretty equal. I just knew this kind of stuff. But my coach wanted me to kind of have a game plan on every point, so we weren't talking really specifically about every aspect of the game. It was more like [an] overall idea."

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