{"id":31224,"date":"2025-07-29T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:17:09","slug":"iga-swiateks-coach-claims-theres-been-a-major-change-in-womens-tennis-over-the-last-15-years-it-is-so-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31224\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek&#8217;s coach claims there&#8217;s been a major change in women&#8217;s tennis over the last 15 years, &#8216;it is so different&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iga Swiatek\u2019s head coach, Wim Fissette, guided the Pole to a sixth Grand Slam title earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/iga-swiatek-issues-emotional-statement-on-instagram-regarding-her-wimbledon-title-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swiatek won her first Wimbledon championship<\/a> with the Belgian in her corner, who she appointed in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Before he started working with the Pole, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Wim-Fissette\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fissette<\/a> had coached several women since 2009, including Grand Slam champions Kim Clijsters, Simona Halep, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/naomi-osaka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Having worked with countless top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> stars for so long, Fissette has noticed a big change in the women\u2019s game over the years. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2218446986-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Wim Fissette supports Iga Swiatek of Poland against Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in the Women's Singles Quarter Final match on Day Ten of the 2025 French Open at Roland Garros.\" class=\"wp-image-112573\" \/>Photo by Andy Cheung\/Getty ImagesWim Fissette explains what has changed in women\u2019s tennis<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with \u2018Tennis Insider Club\u2019, Fissette said: \u201cTraining has been changing a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, physically, if you go to the tournaments, all the gyms are packed, and it used to be that the gym was super small and nobody would be there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically, just speaking about women\u2019s tennis, it is incredible. 15 years ago, you would play one big forehand into the corner, and the opponent would be there, maybe with a slice or a short ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you hit that shot, and they are physically so strong to go on the counterattack already. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so different. That is why tennis has evolved so much in the last 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek\u2019s performances since she started working with Wim Fissette<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/iga-swiatek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swiatek<\/a> announced that Fissette would be her new coach on the 17th of October 2024, and since then has had her ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>She went out in the group stage of the WTA Finals that year, which would mark her last tournament of the season. <\/p>\n<p>TournamentResultAustralian OpenSemi-FinalQatar OpenSemi-FinalDubai Tennis ChampionshipsQuarter-FinalIndian Wells OpenSemi-FinalMiami OpenQuarter-FinalStuttgart OpenQuarter-FinalMadrid OpenSemi-FinalItalian OpenThird RoundFrench OpenSemi-FinalBad Homburg OpenFinalWimbledonChampionIga Swiatek\u2019s performances in WTA events so far this year<\/p>\n<p>In 2025 so far, Swiatek has made the semi-finals of all three Grand Slam events, bowing out in the final four of the Australian Open and Roland Garros before winning it all at Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p>Outside of major events, the 24-year-old has reached just one final, which came at the Bad Homburg Open in June, where she lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jessica-pegula\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> in the championship match.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek\u2019s head coach, Wim Fissette, guided the Pole to a sixth Grand Slam title earlier this month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55,18092,6546],"class_list":{"0":"post-31224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wim-fissette","14":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}