"Ending the season early has been a good decision for Swiatek"

2026 has been a very complicated year for Iga Swiatek. Injuries, coaching changes, alternating between good and bad results... the last straw has been the fact that she did not qualify for the WTA Finals for the first time since 2020, which has led the Polish tennis player to end her season early. As incomprehensible as it may seem, this decision is something that Rennae Stubbs sees positively, and she has argued why.

The coach of Serena Williams knows firsthand what it is like to live with a tennis player at the highest level, and in Swiatek's case, this year she has experienced a roller coaster of emotions that has also represented a very large mental burden. The fact that she will stop competing since the end of October will allow her to come back stronger for 2027, carry out a longer preseason and work on those small details that will enable her to fight again for the major tournaments and the WTA ranking throne.

“Ending the season early has been a good decision for her. It has been an incredibly irregular and chaotic year for Iga. This could be a great advantage for Swiatek, as it allows her to finish her season sooner than she would have normally and, certainly, earlier than she has in many years. I believe it could be an underlying fact that this is something good,” she stated.

Swiatek and Francis Roig, destined to understand each other

Let us not forget that at the beginning of the year, Swiatek decided to part ways with her coach Wim Fissette and start working with Francis Roig, former coach of Rafa Nadal. This union has brought green shoots during the season, such as the title at the WTA 1000 in Cincinnati, and now they will live their first preseason together to really work on an Iga 2.0 that will return to dazzling the world and showing her dominance.

"She can go and work on the game that she felt had drastically deteriorated with Wim Fisette. She lost a lot of confidence, maybe she is starting to regain it a bit, but she's still not completely okay. I think it’s something good for her," concluded Stubbs, who trusts that the Spanish coach can bring out the best in her in the coming months and that 2027 will be the year when the former number 1 in the world regains the level that thrilled the world.

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