Less Swiatek in 2026: "I would like to miss a couple of tournaments"

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The season of Iga Swiatek can be measured from different points of view, it all depends on the value that each one wants to give to Wimbledon. Beyond that stop, the debate is served. However, the Polish player seems to have no doubts.

Some may find it strange to see Iga Swiatek so content with her 2025 season for having won a Grand Slam. Of course, Wimbledon is not just any Grand Slam. If we also study the case of the Polish player, it was probably the tournament where fans least expected to see her triumph, hence the victory being worth threefold. In a recent interview with The Guardian, we can hear Iga talk about everything she experienced in London during that historic fortnight.

“Any season where I achieve a victory at Wimbledon, I would accept without hesitation,” promptly responds the Warsaw native when asked about her latest calendar. “I am super proud of this achievement; this is something that no one expected to happen this year. In fact, I thought I would need a couple more years to learn how to play on grass, to understand how I should use my skills on this surface,” adds the Polish player.

“I felt great those days, we worked very hard before Wimbledon to change some tactical patterns that I had in my mind and that I wasn’t really using in previous years. I felt that day by day things were improving, that I did have the game I needed, so what I did was seize the opportunity. Achieving that victory absolutely changed everything,” recalls Swiatek about the triumph that marked her sixth Grand Slam at a professional level. Quite an achievement for her where only a bit more spectacle was missing in the final. Impossible to forget the double 6-0 against Amanda Anisimova.

“At no moment did I think about how the match was being interpreted from the outside; I was just focused on playing, I didn’t want to give any point for free. It was a Wimbledon final, I really wanted to win it. Then many crazy things happened, I remember every interview talking about the result, journalists asking me if I should let Amanda win at least one game,” explains the 24-year-old.

“I can only say that this tournament shows that tennis is a mental sport. This part of the game has a great impact on everything and on the results of every player. I am very happy to have handled all the pressure well because after the final, everyone was talking about how stressed Amanda was or something, but the truth is I was also very stressed. Playing the Wimbledon final on Centre Court is a surreal experience,” she concludes about that tournament.

Swiatek confirms she will play fewer tournaments in 2026

Wimbledon has long been in the past, so now it's time to think about the future and aim for places that will allow her to take a step forward. The objective is clear: keep winning Grand Slams and reclaim the world No. 1 spot. To achieve this, the Polish player will seek a bit more quality and cut down on quantity, always in relation to the number of tournaments she plans to play in 2026.

“I would like to perhaps skip a couple of tournaments, those where I feel I haven't been able to play as well, maybe I would prefer to use those weeks to train and improve some technical aspect. I think this will also help me play a bit better under stress because my body will remember the right movements during those practice days. That hard work, I believe, can give me a lot of confidence,” assures the protegee of Wim Fissette in the interview.

“There are many things I learned to do this year, but I really couldn't combine them as well as I had been doing in the past few seasons. My goal from now on will be to combine all these elements with better balance, to continue maintaining my level on slow surfaces, to feel more comfortable with the variety of my game, and to know exactly where to use each skill,” concludes Iga.

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