By Richard Pagliaro| @Tennis_Now | Saturday, August 19, 2023
Iga Swiatek will faucet right into a musical muse to organize for her US Open title protection.
Requested what she’s most enthusiastic about in her return to New York, Swiatek supplied a one-word response: “Broadway.”
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Within the aftermath of her three-set Cincinnati semifinal loss to Coco Gauff at this time, Swiatek shared her mission assertion for defending Flushing Meadows: Combat.
“I do know from my expertise already that being a defending champion shouldn’t be straightforward,” Swiatek advised the media in Cincinnati. “I’ll form of take it straightforward on myself and simply attempt to do every part step-by-step.
“Final 12 months’s match was additionally actually robust. I might be out within the fourth spherical when you watched my matches. So I am going to simply struggle and I am going to see how it will go.”
The world No. 1 will carry a 53-9 report into New York and plans to hit the apply court docket subsequent week.
“After I lose, I at all times struggle and I at all times attempt my greatest,” Swiatek stated. “Even when I am enjoying not the very best tennis, I can nonetheless play form of even tennis to my opponents. That is a constructive factor.
“However for positive, the secret’s to win. I am going to simply work on these items that I take into account as a result of there are issues I wish to do higher on the US Open. Lastly really I am going to have time to work on that as a result of this season we did not actually have a variety of time to apply.”
Photograph credit score: Omnium Banque Nationale Fb
