{"id":84341,"date":"2023-04-26T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=84341"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:34:47","slug":"swiatek-keen-to-solve-madrid-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/swiatek-keen-to-solve-madrid-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek keen to solve Madrid puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

With such a distinguished list of accomplishments so early in her career, it\u2019s easy to forget that Iga Swiatek is still just 21.<\/span><\/p>\n

The three-time Grand Slam champion is into her 56th<\/sup>\u00a0consecutive week as the world No.1 and has enjoyed a fast ascent ever since she exploded onto the scene by winning the 2020 Roland-Garros (which was held in the fall instead of the spring) as an unseeded 19-year-old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Particularly ruthless on clay, Swiatek has won almost every big tournament on the red dirt, twice, except for Madrid. She owns a pair of titles at each of Roland-Garros, Rome and Stuttgart, and is keen to complete her collection by triumphing at the Mutua Madrid Open \u2013 an event she has only competed at once, in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Madrid is tricky with the altitude, so I’ll see. I’ve only played twice at altitude. I may be world No.1 but I don’t have as much experience in tennis as you may expect,\u201d the young Pole told\u00a0WTA Insider<\/i>\u00a0in an interview<\/a>\u00a0last Sunday after her successful title defence in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I’m just going to see. My coach is a guy with a lot of knowledge. So I’m sure he’s going to help me manage that properly and get used to the conditions faster than I did in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swiatek explained on Wednesday how different the conditions are in Madrid compared to the indoor clay court she competed on in Stuttgart last week, saying that the \u201c<\/span>ball flies in the air much faster\u201d at the Caja Magica.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played with the Roland-Garros balls in Stuttgart, so my main goal was to play as hard as possible, because these balls are heavy. Here we also have heavy balls, but I feel like they are more flying like bullets. You have to control them. And the clay is a little bit different. The movement and stuff, I just have to get used to it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Swiatek is confident she will make the necessary adjustments to feel comfortable in Madrid and is eager to learn more about competing at altitude.<\/p>\n

As someone who spends her free time assembling complex Lego models, this new challenge on clay is a puzzle Swiatek will undoubtedly enjoy solving. She is a problem-solver at heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to win every tournament that I go to, but Madrid, for sure, is still this kind of tournament that I haven’t figured it out for 100 percent, so I just want to get the experience. Winning would mean that I would play six matches, so that’s a lot and I can learn a lot from that,\u201d said Swiatek.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for now I’m just really focused on the first round, and I want to do it step by step.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swiatek has an opening round bye in Madrid and will face a lucky loser in round two – either Viktoriya Tomova or Julia Grabher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With such a distinguished list of accomplishments so early in her career, it\u2019s easy to forget that Iga Swiatek is still just 21. The three-time Grand Slam champion is into her 56th\u00a0consecutive week as the world No.1 and has enjoyed a fast ascent ever since she exploded onto the scene by winning the 2020 Roland-Garros […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":84342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[837,875,843],"tags":[835,902,831],"class_list":["post-84341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-tenis-en","category-mutua-news-en","category-noticias-tenis-femenino-en","tag-2023-es-en","tag-iga-swiatek-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84344,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84341\/revisions\/84344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}