{"id":801939,"date":"2026-10-14T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801939\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:00:27","slug":"swiatek-determined-to-finish-year-on-high-despite-being-set-to-miss-out-on-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801939\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek determined to finish year on high despite being set to miss out on WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iga Swiatek has played at every edition of the WTA Finals since \u20602021, but with the Pole running out of time to claim a place at this year’s season-ending tournament \u200cshe knows the importance of going deep at her few remaining events.<\/p>\n

The \u200csix-time major champion has won only one tournament \u200cthis year at the Canadian Open in August and failed to \u200cadvance beyond the quarter-final stage at all four Grand \u200cSlams.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old, who won the WTA Finals in 2023, is 10th in the qualifying table for the November 8-15 tournament at Indian \u200cWells with only four of the \u2060eight spots still up for \u200cgrabs.<\/p>\n

She sits on 3,799 points, 111 behind Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk<\/a> in \u200b9th place. Karolina Muchova<\/a>, on 4,615 points, is the lowest-ranked player not to have sealed qualification.<\/p>\n

“Obviously \u200bI’m aware of the situation and it would be great to get into the Finals, for sure it’s our \u2060goal,” Swiatek<\/a> told reporters \u200bon Monday ahead of the Wuhan Open.<\/p>\n

“It’s the first time I’ve faced a situation like that, to get into the finals.<\/p>\n

“It’s a challenge, but I feel like it’s a \u200cpositive one and I’m really motivated … There are still a few tournaments ahead.”<\/p>\n

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Swiatek said she had made some positive changes to her game under coach Francisco Roig<\/a>, whom she appointed in April after parting ways with Wim Fissette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I needed to change some stuff, and Francisco has a really great idea for my game, and I feel like we’re developing my game on the practice court quite \u200ca lot, and it’s been good progress,” she added.<\/p>\n

“The US \u200bOpen swing, for sure, was the most positive part \u200cof the season, so that shows that I’m going in the right direction.”<\/p>\n

Swiatek, who faces compatriot Magdalena Frech<\/a> in her opening match in Wuhan on Wednesday<\/a>, is also scheduled to compete at WTA 500 events \u2060in Ningbo and Tokyo \u2060before the WTA Finals \u200cslots are wrapped up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek has played at every edition of the WTA Finals since \u20602021, but with the Pole running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801939","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=801939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}