{"id":198920,"date":"2026-03-20T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:19:10","slug":"iga-swiateks-miami-nightmare-by-ben-rothenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198920\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek&#8217;s Miami &#8220;Nightmare&#8221; &#8211; by Ben Rothenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 What had quietly been a somewhat disappointing season for Iga Swiatek hit its loudest bump yet on Thursday at the Miami Open, with a stunning collapse on court and post-match interviews marked by tears and raw emotion.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!SQba!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36b2c79c-96bf-4cdc-be78-dc185b9fd436_3150x2549.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/36b2c79c-96bf-4cdc-be78-dc185b9fd436_3150.jpeg\" width=\"3150\" height=\"2549\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/36b2c79c-96bf-4cdc-be78-dc185b9fd436_3150x2549.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:2549,&quot;width&quot;:3150,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:741571,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/i\/191549112?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2337ec5a-b358-4f8b-84ec-28aa2a56c0e5_3150x2549.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Iga Swiatek on Thursday evening at the Miami Open. (Photo by Sipa USA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been an overthinker; lately it\u2019s just been really intense.\u201d \u2014Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, atop the tennis world last summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/p\/wimbledon-iga-swiatek-coach-wim-fissette-psychologist-daria-abramowicz-interviews?utm_source=publication-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when she won Wimbledon<\/a>, was blunt about the \u201cchaos\u201d in her mind on court, and spoke openly and bluntly about both her problems and possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p>To read this full article, including Swiatek\u2019s post-match comments in Polish and English, please subscribe to Bounces! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 What had quietly been a somewhat disappointing season for Iga Swiatek hit its loudest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-198920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}