{"id":18559,"date":"2025-07-18T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:16:10","slug":"iga-swiateks-former-coach-explains-how-copying-novak-djokovic-will-help-her-achieve-a-new-most-important-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18559\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek\u2019s former coach explains how copying Novak Djokovic will help her achieve a new \u2018most important\u2019 goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iga Swiatek bludgeoned her way to the Wimbledon title on Saturday, dropping only two games in her final two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has now won six Grand Slams following a 6-0 6-0 thrashing of <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/amanda-anisimova\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> in the Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/iga-swiatek-compared-to-serena-williams-after-historic-victory-over-amanda-anisimova-in-the-wimbledon-final\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swiatek, who was compared to Serena Williams<\/a> following her victory, won the title seven years after her victory at junior Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Pole still has a long way to go if she is to catch the likes of Serena and <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/roger-federer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a>, who sit at the pinnacle of the sport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224796653-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Iga Swiatek of Poland poses with the Ladies\u2019 Singles Trophy following her victory against Amanda Anisimova of United States during the Ladies' Singles Final on day thirteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2025 in London, England.\" class=\"wp-image-313754\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek was recently told that she should copy one of these greats to continue her successes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Artur Szostaczko says Iga Swiatek must prioritise titles over ranking, like Novak Djokovic<\/p>\n<p>Artur Szostaczko, <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/iga-swiatek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek\u2019s<\/a> former coach who mentored her for five years until she was 10 years old, discussed the importance of trophies and rankings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polsatsport.pl\/iga-swiatek\/2025-07-16\/iga-swiatek-dobierze-sie-do-skory-sabalence-taktyka-novaka-djokovicia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">polsatsport<\/a>, while also comparing her to Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Szostaczko said: \u201cI\u2019m just wondering if the most important thing for Iga is to be the world\u2019s number one. Perhaps winning trophies like the Australian Open, that she doesn\u2019t have, will gain a higher priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovak Djokovic was not always the leader of the ATP Rankings, but in Grand Slams won. For him, the titles were the most important. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2223943375-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates winning the second set against Alex De Minaur of Australia during the Gentlemen's Singles fourth round match on day eight of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 07, 2025 in London, England.\" class=\"wp-image-314539\" \/>Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, for Iga, this approach would be the best \u2013 focusing on trophies, not on rankings. The ranking will improve with the collected titles. It is important that Iga has already climbed to third place, which means that she will play Sabalenka or Coco Gauff only in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing, however, is a good game, not worrying about who she will play or when. Wimbledon showed that this year, in the first two rounds, the most players in the history fell out. But that wasn\u2019t Iga\u2019s problem. She won deservedly, let\u2019s rejoice in it, let\u2019s get a lot of joy and keep our fingers crossed that Iga is healthy, so that she avoids injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all saw what happened to Dimitrov. He led in sets 2-0, but unfortunately, he suffered an injury and so the dreams of conquering Wimbledon ended. We have an example of Hubert Hurkacz, who has actually been struggling with injuries for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek led her peers in break-point conversion at Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>There can be no denying that Iga Swiatek performed close to her best at this year\u2019s Wimbledon Championships. The Pole was simply unstoppable in the latter rounds, giving her opponents little room to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics back up this sentiment. Iga Swiatek converted the most break points of any player during the Wimbledon 2025 Ladies Singles tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek will surely be favourite for the Ladies Singles title at the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a>, despite her ranking of number three in the world. There is simply no one better than her on the WTA Tour when she is on form.<\/p>\n<p>The Pole will find out her route to glory at the US Open later this year. The tournament will run from August 24 to September 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek bludgeoned her way to the Wimbledon title on Saturday, dropping only two games in her final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12211,2660,433,99,428,14687,96,7642],"class_list":["post-18559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-tennis-players","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta-tennis-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}