Swiatek & Coach Wiktorowski Part ways
BY:
OSABUOHIEN IMUETINYANOSA
World number one Iga Swiatek in quest for a new coach after parting ways with Tomasz Wiktorowski following three seasons working together.
2022 was when Wiktorowski, 43, joined Swiatek’s team as coach then she had one Grand Slam success to her name before she attained great heights in tennis like never before.
Swiatek now on four further Grand Slam titles, including three successive French Opens all thanks to the arrival of coach Wiktorowski.
Still with Wiktorowski swiatek became the first Polish player to reach world number one in April 2022 and has enjoyed a total of 123 weeks at the top of the rankings.
“After three years of the greatest achievements in my career, together with my coach Tomasz Wiktorowski we decided to part ways. I want to start with a big thank you and appreciating our work together,” Swiatek inscriptions on Instagram.
“His experience, analytical and strategic attitude and enormous knowledge about tennis helped us to achieve things I’ve never dreamed of only a few months after we started working together.”
Swiatek did say “first talks” with prospective new coaches and will take a “couple of weeks” to start work with her next appointment.
She is not playing at the ongoing China Open, having withdrawn beforehand because of some personal aspects of her life she needs to give proper attentions to.
The 23-year-old won the French Open and US Open during her opening season with Wiktorowski.
During 2022, Swiatek embarked on a 37-match winning run – the longest streak by a woman this century.
The Pole won a fifth Grand Slam – her fourth with Wiktorowski – at Roland Garros in June.
But Swiatek was disappointed with her hard-court performances this season, exiting the Australian Open in the third round and the US Open at the quarter-finals stage.
Swiatek says a chance to spend more time at home after three years of travelling will be welcome to Wiktorowski, and also indicates this is the right time for her to start working with a non-Polish coach.
Piotr Sierzputowski guided her through the majority of her teenage years, and she plans having a fresh beginning with a non polish no more people with whom she shares a language and a culture with.
Four months already counting since the world number one won a title. She has not played since losing to Jessica Pegula in the US Open quarter-finals, missed this week’s China Open for personal reasons and will not play next week in Wuhan either “after an important change in my team”.
Swiatek has not ceased to criticised the frequent nature of the circuit and the multiplications of mandatory tournaments on the WTA Tour, which she found to be too demanding.
Swaitek conclusions shock the hearing of tennis subscribers as she will not represent Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals – which leaves next month’s WTA Finals as perhaps her only appearance before the year is out.
