{"id":256033,"date":"2025-11-01T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256033\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:10:11","slug":"i-feel-like-im-40-jokes-iga-swiatek-as-she-recounts-her-wimbledon-title-and-looks-ahead-to-more-in-riyadh-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256033\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Feel Like I\u2019m 40\u201d Jokes Iga Swiatek, as she recounts her Wimbledon title and Looks Ahead to More in Riyadh \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025 wasn\u2019t the most dominant season in Iga Swiatek<\/a>\u2019s career, but it was darn good. The Polish star, who reached an emotional summit in July when she won her sixth major title at Wimbledon, talked about her campaign ahead of this year\u2019s WTA Finals in Riyadh. She sounded very much like a player at peace with her game and her progress, with an eye on bigger and perhaps even better achievements down the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was probably the season with the most ups and downs and in terms of the results and sometimes how I felt playing tournaments,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I think I learned a lot, even though I\u2019m already an experienced player, I had some challenges this year that really were kind of new, and I needed to adjust to them a little bit more also. I think it was the first year when I didn\u2019t feel like I\u2019m still young, you know. So that was also a different feeling. But overall, I think winning Wimbledon made this season already super special and amazing, and just put it over anything else I would say, and then playing great in Cincinnati and winning so as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tricky season, but in the end, I can say it was a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swiatek started her WTA Finals campaign with another impressive performance on Saturday, as she sailed past 2025 Australian Open winner Madison Keys, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s bidding for her second title at the tour\u2019s season-ending championships.<\/p>\n

Asked about the fact that she is the youngest player to qualify for the WTA Finals in five successive seasons in over a decade, Swiatek talked about her age versus her perceived age.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m 40 already,\u201d she said, laughing. \u201cNo but like, seriously, for sure, the life on tour is intense, and all the seasons are super intense. So it\u2019s easy to forget how young I am as well, because I feel like I\u2019ve just been on tour for like, 10 years. Actually, it\u2019s been six, but it\u2019s been just really busy and also efficient. So this is something that I\u2019m happy about, but I am still young, so there\u2019s a lot to change and improve in my game, and it\u2019s always good to find that perspective at the end, especially before the preseason or before some periods of time when you have bit more [time to] practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Blair Henley asked Swaitek to go over some of the technical advancements she made in her game in 2025. Turns out there were a few big ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think technically for sure, the way I played on faster surfaces and the way I handle sometimes faster balls, ones that were an issue for me in previous seasons, this was something that I felt improved totally,\u201d she said. \u201cAlso the speed of the serve.. I was fifth or something in aces this season. I would love for my percentage to always be consistent, so that\u2019s the next goal. But now I know that I can serve those speeds and and serve a lot of aces as well, and get some free points, so I think these two things went really great. And honestly, this was my goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 wasn\u2019t the most dominant season in Iga Swiatek\u2019s career, but it was darn good. The Polish star,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-256033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256033","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=256033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}