‘I feel great and that’s weird’ – Iga Swiatek opens up on feeling ‘even more fresh’ ahead of San Diego Open

Iga Swiatek says she has been stunned by how motivated she is feeling regardless of having performed – and gained – so many matches in 2022.

World No. 1 Swiatek’s win-loss document this 12 months reads a outstanding 60-9, and it is not simply the quantity of matches she has gained, however the significance of them – taking two majors on the French and US Opens, and securing 5 different titles moreover.

Along with her 2021 season comprising 51 matches, it is an enormous enhance in her workload, however having had over a month off after profitable in New York she is hungry to finish the marketing campaign on a excessive and can compete on the San Diego Open this week.

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The 21-year-old Pole mentioned: “Truthfully, I really feel nice and that’s bizarre as a result of I believed after so many matches I used to be going to really feel an absence of motivation. Or I believed that in the event you’re profitable an excessive amount of you’re not going to have one other aim to achieve.

“However truthfully, it’s the other. I’m much more contemporary as a result of profitable retains me actually constructive. I don’t waste my power and time coming again to this constructive mindset.

“I really feel like I might be within the rhythm and do my job on court docket and play. I really feel actually good.”

“Regardless that I performed two actually lengthy matches there [in Austria] I really feel fairly nice bodily,” Swiatek mentioned.

“The factor is that proper now I really feel extra contemporary as a result of I had extra day without work after the US Open.

“So going into Ostrava I knew I may give all the things and go all in. It’s not that unhealthy. It’s the ‘good’ jet lag, coming this manner [to the US].

“It is smart [to play in San Diego] as a result of I simply must have extra matches earlier than the WTA Finals.

“It will be fairly unhealthy if I’d have three weeks with out matches as a result of I’d be a bit of bit not within the rhythm.

“So it is smart to be right here for certain. I actually wished to play due to town and I heard so many constructive issues concerning the match that I wished to come back.”

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