{"id":113592,"date":"2025-09-02T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:42:09","slug":"iga-swiatek-shares-the-text-message-she-sent-to-her-coach-on-court-immediately-after-reaching-the-us-open-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113592\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek shares the text message she sent to her coach on court immediately after reaching the US Open quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iga Swiatek, after a somewhat unconvincing performance against Anna Kalinskaya, has returned to her dominant ways.<\/p>\n

She crushed Ekaterina Alexandrova in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, to reach yet another US Open<\/a> quarter-final.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the former world number one has set up a rematch of the Wimbledon final earlier this summer, where she demolished Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in embarrassing fashion.<\/p>\n

Such was the manner of her beatdown that it actually provoked many to call for a change of the rules of tennis<\/a> to allow players more time to adjust.<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Iga Swiatek<\/a> will be hoping to mirror that performance again, this time in front of Anisimova\u2019s home crowd.<\/p>\n

However, before that intensity and ruthlessness becomes the overwhelming topic of discussion, the 24-year-old provided a lighthearted on-court interview which is worth a listen.<\/p>\n

What Iga Swiatek instantly did after reaching US Open quarter-finals<\/p>\n

Especially considering the way in which she analysed her game, and gave a short line to the interviewer, which actually reveals so much about just how hard working she is.<\/p>\n

Swiatek began by revealing who she was texting immediately after beating Alexandrova, as she claimed: \u201cOh, uh, just my coach. Um, yeah, I asked him to book like 10 minutes of practice court if it\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then rated her performance, outlining what she liked most about it: \u201cI would say the intensity and the focus for sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning, I felt like, I don\u2019t know, like she played really fast and also the court is a bit different, so I wanted to find my rhythm, but later on, I just felt like I\u2019m really in my bubble and in the zone and sometimes I was making, like, risky decisions and I think I forced the ball kind of to go in. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m just happy with the quality and with my serve as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swiatek concluded by admitting that, whilst clay remains her favourite surface, the others are growing on her: \u201cWell, um, now I like all of them, which is weird. But for sure, you know, that Clay court season has always been my favourite.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut like, people make it pretty hard for me, you know. I mean, with all the pressure around, so I think sometimes it\u2019s just easier to enjoy the surfaces where it\u2019s harder to play, but you have more kind of freedom to just make mistakes and accept them. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo it depends. I would say every month is different and I can play on every surface if I feel good with my game and in my head, I feel confident, so, yeah, I\u2019ll just try to play good throughout the whole year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amanda Anisimova will be out for revenge against Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n

Given that just last week Anisimova stated that she wanted to play Swiatek again at the US Open<\/a>, it\u2019s great that she will finally get that chance.<\/p>\n

And, for the American, this gives her a fine opportunity not only to move on from that devastating Wimbledon clash, but to genuinely threaten the six-time Grand Slam champion in an environment without the pressure that a Grand Slam final brings.<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

After all, she has the tools to trouble Swiatek, but she just could not get going on Centre Court.<\/p>\n

This will likely be a far fairer reflection on the level they both possess, with Anisimova certain to be desperate to get revenge after failing to get a single game in their last meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek, after a somewhat unconvincing performance against Anna Kalinskaya, has returned to her dominant ways. She crushed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,2636,85,747,1751],"class_list":{"0":"post-113592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-iga-swiatek","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}