A biography for Iga Swiatekhasn’t been written yet.
“I can't predict that, 'Hey, in the second week of February I'm going to play great,' but when it's there and I can feel confident - it's easy for me to focus, my mind is clear, I can hit the ball perfectly and it's actually going where I want it to - I can say that I'm feeling that I'm going to play well.”
“Ever since I've started my journey with sports, I've heard other people's expectations on how I should play, how I look, how I should behave, what I should do.”
“Playing good tennis, winning grand slams seemed so distant to me, so achieving that is kind of a weird feeling and I just couldn't believe it.”
“I think my coaches are pretty good at planning.”
“Grand Slams are different. There is different pressure on the court and off the court.”
“It's easy for me to not use my phone for the whole day. I feel like because of books, I can find more balance, more peace of mind. If I don't read for a couple of weeks, I feel like I have too much chaos in my life.”
“It's not easy to play the first matches in a Grand Slam.”
“Sometimes, especially after Grand Slams, when you are playing these smaller tournaments, you feel the energy level is a little bit lower. But on the other hand, when I'm going on court, it's still the same, and I always want to win.”
“I feel like I can adjust to anything.”
“With the empty, almost-empty stadium, you hear your every thought, basically.”
“I feel weird sometimes when I don't read for a few days. Because I feel like, Oh, that's a signal I don't have the balance in my life I should have.”
“I'm always gonna have that balance between the work that I put in on court and also the influence that comes with it.”
“I feel like everything is just based on wanting to have more and more, but not really taking care of our well-being and health. There are some things that the WTA could change for us without any impact on the tournaments and the things that they already agreed with the tournaments.”
“I realized how easier our lives could be if we work a little bit on ourselves.”
“It's hard to separate what I've learned from the new experiences I've had and from just growing up.”
“I feel like everybody on the top level plays great tennis, but it's those who can mentally cope with the most stressful moments who are the champions.”
“It is important to have peace so you can focus on working. It is not only true for tennis players but for any person who wants to succeed and is doing extraordinary things.”
“I'm kind of doing everything step by step, and every match matters for me. It's not like I'm going in the first rounds of grand slams knowing that I should win or I should take it for granted. I'm ready to battle even in the first rounds.”
“On tour, it's necessary to meet people and make connections, but when I was a teenager, I found it difficult to approach people and really even to just make small talk with strangers - it felt like it was impossible for me to find topics to talk about.”
“When you're on the tour, you can't always be thinking about tennis and focused completely on that; you have to be happy about the little things in life too. But yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sarcastic, and I try to use that sometimes.”