By Richard Pagliaro| @Tennis_Now | Saturday, August 19, 2023
Iga Swiatek will faucet right into a musical muse to arrange for her US Open title protection.
Requested what she’s most enthusiastic about in her return to New York, Swiatek provided a one-word response: “Broadway.”
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Within the aftermath of her three-set Cincinnati semifinal loss to Coco Gauff in the present day, Swiatek shared her mission assertion for defending Flushing Meadows: Combat.
“I do know from my expertise already that being a defending champion will not be straightforward,” Swiatek instructed the media in Cincinnati. “I will type of take it straightforward on myself and simply attempt to do every part step-by-step.
“Final yr’s event was additionally actually powerful. I might be out within the fourth spherical should you watched my matches. So I will simply battle and I will see how it’ll go.”
The world No. 1 will carry a 53-9 report into New York and plans to hit the follow court docket subsequent week.
“Once I lose, I at all times battle and I at all times attempt my greatest,” Swiatek mentioned. “Even when I am taking part in not the most effective tennis, I can nonetheless play type of even tennis to my opponents. That is a optimistic factor.
“However for positive, the hot button is to win. I will simply work on these items that I take into account as a result of there are issues I wish to do higher on the US Open. Lastly really I will have time to work on that as a result of this season we did not actually have quite a lot of time to follow.”
Photograph credit score: Omnium Banque Nationale Fb
