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Tennis-Swiatek encouraged by recent progress after toughest season of career
Iga Swiatek said a Canadian Open title and stronger recent results have restored confidence after a difficult season and a slide to No. 8.
- On Sunday, six-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek begins her U.S. Open campaign against China's Wang Xiyu as the tournament's main draws get under way.
- Swiatek described this as her "toughest" season after switching coaches to Francisco Roig before the clay court season and facing limited practice time that disrupted her performances at Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
- Recent results provided momentum: the 25-year-old captured her first title of the season at the Canadian Open with a commanding victory over Elena Rybakina and reached a high-level semifinal against Jessica Pegula in Cincinnati.
- At Flushing Meadows, the 25-year-old seeks to replicate her 2022 U.S. Open championship; however, she has not advanced beyond the quarterfinals there in each of the last two years.
- Having lifted at least one Grand Slam trophy every season since 2022, Swiatek aims to preserve that streak at the year's final major while managing her current eighth-place world ranking.
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Swiatek encouraged by recent progress after toughest season of career
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Iga Swiatek has described 2026 as “probably the toughest one” of her career, but the former world No. 1 arrives at the US Open with a very different feeling after finally finding her best tennis during the North American hard-court swing. The Polish star spent the first part of the season searching...
Six-time Grand Slam champion Iga Schwontek said her recent progress has encouraged her for what she described as the most difficult season of her career and she will fight for her first Grand Slam title of the year at the US Open.
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