{"id":34357,"date":"2025-07-30T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34357\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:04:13","slug":"iga-swiatek-admits-even-she-was-surprised-by-what-she-did-at-wimbledon-which-has-never-happened-in-her-career-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34357\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek admits even she was ‘surprised’ by what she did at Wimbledon which has never happened in her career before"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iga Swiatek made some important changes to her game to win the Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n

Before 2025, the Pole had never progressed beyond the quarterfinals at the All-England Club.<\/p>\n

She also entered the tournament without any title wins for the past year, but perhaps that sense of nothing to lose is what Iga Swiatek<\/a> needed heading into her most difficult Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

Many of her biggest rivals fell early during Wimbledon<\/a>, but Swiatek eased through the field, and won her last three sets of the tournament without losing a game to win her first grass court title.<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesIga Swiatek says she was \u2018surprised\u2019 by the speed of her serve at Wimbledon this year<\/p>\n

Swiatek possesses heavy and consistent groundstrokes, and she has arguably the best movement in the game.<\/p>\n

But one area that she was keen to improve is her serve in a bid to make it more penetrative and win more free points as a result.<\/p>\n

Swiatek has worked on her serve with coach Wim Fisette<\/a>, but she was surprised with how she served at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

During Swiatek\u2019s third round win over Danielle Collins at SW19<\/a>, her average first serve speed was 180km\/h, which was faster than Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, Elena Rybakina<\/a> and Madison Keys<\/a> at the same stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n

During a guest appearance on Andy Roddick\u2019s <\/a>\u2018Served\u2019 podcast, Swiatek opened up on how her improved serve has made her feel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly when I looked at the stats after the tournament I told my condition coach was the speed check broken because I never served that fast!,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was serving faster than all the big servers that we have on the WTA Tour. I was surprised, I don\u2019t know if I am going to be able to do that next tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will try because I loved it and I got so many free points and the girls couldn\u2019t really return these serves as well as before, so it was super convenient.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that was the one of the keys and I got to say for the first year I wasn\u2019t trying to copy my clay court game, with still trying to spin the ball on the forehand and move similarly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just knew that I needed to use my intuition a bit more, I think I played more flat from the beginning of the grass court season and more aggressive from the first shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Jason Heidrich\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesIga Swiatek says she started to feel her serve improve at the Australian Open<\/p>\n

While it is still a work in progress, Swiatek has been working hard on her serve for the entire year.<\/p>\n

While she saw the fruits of her labour to its fullest extent at Wimbledon, Swiatek said she first felt the improvements in her serve at January\u2019s Australian Open<\/a>, where she reached the semifinals.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically I think I needed someone to force me to do that to give me a little bit of confidence to be able to serve all directions with good speed and precision,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt that already in Australia that this is going better. I had some tournaments where I didn\u2019t feel it that well, but I guess in every process you are going to have ups and downs until you get to the point where it comes more naturally.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Wimbledon I think also with the balls that are sticking to the strings, the contact point is a bit longer, because they are heavier a bit. I felt like I could serve really well and I was really going for it.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek made some important changes to her game to win the Wimbledon title. Before 2025, the Pole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,616,82,593,614,4306],"class_list":{"0":"post-34357","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-iga-swiatek","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-wimbledon","14":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34357","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=34357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}