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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know yet how my career is going to look like in a couple of years,\u201d Swiatek told the media at the China Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I will have to choose some tournaments and skip them, even though they are mandatory.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Swiatek has already played 72 matches this season. <\/p>\n
The China Open is Swiatek\u2019s 17th event of the season. Coming off her run to the Seoul title, Swiatek pointed to the WTA\u2019s mandatory tournament rule requiring top players to compete in 10 WTA 1000 events, five WTA 500 tournaments and the four Grand Slams as excessive and potentially health hazardous.<\/p>\n
Calling those requirements \u201cpretty crazy\u201d, Swiatek said it\u2019s up to players to protect their health, which may mean she opts out of some tournaments in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just impossible to squeeze it in the schedule,\u201d Swiatek said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have to be smart about it, not really unfortunately care about the rules and just think what\u2019s healthy for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The top-seeded Swiatek will face 16th-seeded Emma Navarro for a spot in the Beijing quarterfinals. The winner of that match will meet either fifth-seeded Jessica Pegula or Marta Kostyuk.<\/p>\n
World No. 2 Swiatek calls the current WTA schedule \u201coverwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I look at the schedule, I think we\u2019re playing too much, and the schedule is crazy. That\u2019s the first thing probably that will pop to my head,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I try to split the year for swings and just focus on the next swing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a four-week pre-season, eight days of vacation, if I would look at the end of December and think I\u2019m going to need to play for 11 months on the top of my game, I think that would be overwhelming. It\u2019s better to just really take it step by step because the schedule is really demanding and tough.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the goal? I mean, I kind of achieved more than I ever thought anyway. I\u2019m really just trying to develop as a player and learn new skills, just focus on improving the parts of my game that I feel need improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek is feeling physically squeezed by the WTA\u2019s schedule and cautions she may skip mandatory events to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-178923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}