{"id":7292,"date":"2025-07-13T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7292\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:50:03","slug":"lindsay-davenport-says-what-iga-swiatek-figured-out-ahead-of-her-wimbledon-final-victory-over-amanda-anisimova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7292\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Davenport says what Iga Swiatek \u2018figured out\u2019 ahead of her Wimbledon Final victory over Amanda Anisimova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iga Swiatek bulldozed her way to victory in the Wimbledon final on Sunday, barely giving opponent Amanda Anisimova a chance as she swept to a 6-0 6-0 victory.<\/p>\n

The emphatic scoreline \u2013 the first in a Grand Slam final since Steffi Graf\u2019s 1988 French Open triumph \u2013 was a far cry from the struggles Swiatek<\/a> had suffered on the surface up until 2025.<\/p>\n

Swiatek won the Wimbledon Girls\u2019 Singles title in 2018<\/a> but has struggled since, only reaching her first grass-court final in June of 2025 at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.<\/p>\n

It felt like something clicked for Swiatek at Wimbledon this year. Her best result in five attempts before this year was the quarter-final stage, which she achieved in 2023 before losing in the third round in 2024.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Davenport, who won the 1999 Wimbledon<\/a> Ladies Singles title, believes the Pole figured something out on the SW19 grass this year.<\/p>\n

\"SwiatekPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesLindsay Davenport says Iga Swiatek had \u2018a shift in her mindset\u2019 on grass courts<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Tennis Channel Live Podcast, Davenport discussed a shift in mindset which may have helped Swiatek achieve Wimbledon glory.<\/p>\n

Davenport said: \u201cYou need the reps on this surface, no question about it. But you also have to have the mindset and you have to kind of get over and go \u2018whatever happens, happens.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to miss some shots you should make, you\u2019re going to get some points that go really fast. You\u2019ve just got to kind of accept the way grass court tennis is. It just seemed like there was a shift in her mindset this entire tournament of \u2018I can play on this surface.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI love what Jim said when he quoted Iga. She said \u2018my shots are listening to me in practice.\u2019 That\u2019s step one, okay maybe I can play out here. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe liked her draw, she went through, the courts were playing to her liking and you know what? She just accepted everything that was thrown at her this tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim Courier says Iga Swiatek didn\u2019t have the same expectations she does on clay<\/p>\n

Courier, who won four Grand Slam titles during his playing career, discussed the level of expectation Swiatek faces from surface to surface.<\/p>\n

The Pole is renowned for her clay court magic, having won four French Open titles. However, Courier claimed Swiatek may have been \u2018feeling the strain\u2019 of being the favourite at this year\u2019s French Open, where she lost in the semi-finals to Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n

Following on from Davenport on the Tennis Channel Live Podcast, Courier said: \u201cAnd she (Swiatek) also didn\u2019t have the expectation set she does when she plays on the clay. <\/p>\n

\"JimPhoto by Cameron Spencer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really felt like this clay court season, she was feeling the strain and the stress of being the favourite and trying to win RG again and she came in with this lightness this tournament. <\/p>\n

\u201c[Swiatek] just seemed happy from the jump and that manifested itself into her best tennis on this surface, and she also sort of played her own style of tennis here and maybe didn\u2019t concede too much to the surface and I think the conditions\u00a0really allowed her to enjoy her style of tennis more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek bulldozed her way to victory in the Wimbledon final on Sunday, barely giving opponent Amanda Anisimova…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2660,7002,7003,99,428,96,7642],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-jim-courier","tag-lindsay-davenport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta-tennis-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","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=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}