{"id":74320,"date":"2025-08-11T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74320\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:37:12","slug":"iga-swiatek-pinpoints-what-is-much-different-about-the-us-open-balls-that-dont-help-the-players-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74320\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek pinpoints what is \u2018much different\u2019 about the US Open balls that don\u2019t help the players at all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iga Swiatek\u2019s battle back to the summit of tennis has been an arduous one after struggling to find her feet early in 2025.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the year, Swiatek suffered shock exits to Mirra Andreeva<\/a> and Danielle Collins at Indian Wells and Rome respectively.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Pole went over a year without winning a WTA Tour title after losing in the French Open semi-finals to Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, her form was soon to change. Swiatek\u2019s<\/a> first grass-court final appearance at the Bad Homburg Open foreshadowed future events, as she went on to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish at Wimbledon in July.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to August and the 24-year-old is gearing up for a third-round match at the Cincinnati Open. The Pole will face Ukraine\u2019s Marta Kostyuk after defeating Russia\u2019s Anastasia Potapova in the second round.<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

There has been a change in geographical scenery recently as tournaments have moved from the European clay and grass-court surfaces to the North American hard courts.<\/p>\n

A change to the type of ball has faced much scrutiny due to an apparent difficulty in controlling them. The North American hard-court swing uses Wilson US Open balls, while Wimbledon<\/a> uses Slazenger balls, and the French Open uses Wilson Roland Garros balls.<\/p>\n

Swiatek addressed this issue while speaking to reporters after her victory over Potapova.<\/p>\n

Iga Swiatek says the Wilson US Open balls are lighter than the ones used at Wimbledon and on clay<\/p>\n

The Wilson US Open balls have been frequently discussed in recent weeks due to an apparent lack of control. At the Canadian Open, Taylor Fritz said they were \u2018the hardest balls to control<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

After playing her first match at the Cincinnati Open, Iga Swiatek has weighed in on the issue. The Pole was asked by one reporter to expand on her perspective and approach on dealing with the \u2018light\u2019 US Wilson US Open balls.<\/p>\n

Swiatek said: \u201cYeah\u00a0I won\u00a0the US Open but I also like lost couple times second round, or third.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0kind of being humble and knowing that you need to kind of adjust to the balls because\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0not going to help you a bit.<\/p>\n

So yeah, they are light. They are much different than what we played at on like clay and on Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

So yeah, the only way to like think about it is to focus on adjusting as best as possible and accepting that there are going to be some shots that are just going to kind of fly away from your racket and trying to control it as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Swiatek speaks about early-season struggles<\/p>\n

Swiatek was also asked to comment on her early-season struggles.<\/p>\n

The Pole noted there were a variety of factors, pinpointing her clay-court expectations as one particular area of struggle.<\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI think there were a lot of factors back then. Well for sure the expectations on clay and just me kind of feeling like I don\u2019t know, I need to compete my best every week, but I sometimes needed just time to kind of reset but didn\u2019t really get it until I lost in Rome.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah me being like frustrated quicker from different reasons like\u2026 and not working the proper way, kind of being stubborn sometimes with the way I approach stuff so I think it was a mix, and I needed some time to get out of that\u00a0after Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek\u2019s battle back to the summit of tennis has been an arduous one after struggling to find…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[37370,2660,99,428,14687,7642],"class_list":{"0":"post-74320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati-open","9":"tag-iga-swiatek","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-us-open-tennis","13":"tag-wta-tennis-players"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74320","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=74320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}