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Iga Swiatek: “I never imagined myself number one in the world”

2022-04-20T15:44:24.088Z


INTERVIEW – The Polish, who will arrive ambitious at Roland-Garros, confides in her new status and her mental work.


Unstoppable Iga Swiatek.

The new boss of tennis chained an 18th consecutive victory in Stuttgart on Wednesday, by outclassing the unknown German Eva Lyss in the first round.

If clay remains her favorite surface, it is on hard that the surprise winner of Roland-Garros 2020 officially took the first place in the world on April 4th.

By winning the Miami tournament on April 3, after those of Doha and Indian Wells, the 20-year-old champion scored a formidable hat-trick.

What give additional legitimacy to the place of world number 1 which was promised to him since the early retirement of Ashleigh Barty.

"

Honestly, I didn't think about this series of victories when I was playing in Miami

," the new queen of tennis told a handful of French media on Tuesday, including the

Figaro

during an interview organized from Stuttgart by its French equipment supplier Tecnifibre.

I played game by game.

This series allows me to better start my meetings, to be…

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Source: lefigaro

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