Polish Świątek surprisingly changed coach

The Polish Iga Świątek is the undisputed number one in the tennis world. Nevertheless, they decided on a far-reaching change.

Tennis world number one Iga Świątek has surprisingly separated from her coach. The 23-year-old Pole announced this on Instagram on Friday. “After three years of the greatest successes in my career, coach Tomasz Wiktorowski and I have decided to end our collaboration,” the post said.

Świątek thanked Wiktorowski for the cooperation. The Pole will now take “a few weeks” before announcing her new coach. You are currently in discussions with a coach from abroad. They are “ready to take the next step.” Wiktorowski has been a Swedish side since 2021, from 2011 to 2018 he looked after the first top player and former world number two Agnieszka Radwańska, also from Poland.

The clay court specialist has triumphed four times at the French Open since 2020, and she also won the US Open in 2022. Aside from the French Open, she has recently had a difficult time at Grand Slams. In Australia and at Wimbledon she failed in the third round, and at the US Open in September she was already over in the quarterfinals.

In the all-time world rankings, however, she recently overtook the Australian Ashleigh Barty (121 weeks into her career as world number one) and the Belgian Justine Henin (117 weeks). Świątek is currently in 7th place for 123 weeks. To this day, the undisputed leader is Steffi Graf, who was number one among women for a total of an incredible 377 weeks and therefore for more than seven years.