Iga Swiatek, tennis No. 1, 20 yrs, undefeated since February, said:
“I remember a time when I was only able to focus for like 40 minutes and suddenly my head was like a pigeon … I was looking everywhere but where I should have been looking.”
We can consider this as the starting point from which she started to improve and become a champion.
It is very important for her not to burn out:“You have to remind yourself that you want to do this for many years on tour,”
Swiatek, a self-described perfectionist, and she and her team are aware that this attitude is certainly helpful but can also become very harmful. Perfection does not exist, and with this approach you risk blaming yourself for every mistake you make and destroying your tennis.
For this reason, she started working mentally with psychologist Daria Abramowicz, who follows her full-time, because sports psychology is most effective when applied during everyday life and not during visits to the Warsaw studio. “For me it is much, much easier to trust someone who is close to me all the time.”
An important goal is to maintain a work-life balance. For this reason, he has cut back on doubles matches and allows himself more time for tourism in the cities he visits.
His routine is his support system. “No matter how much storm there is going on around, there’s always an eye of the hurricane that has to be calm; this core that has to be always the same.”
He also uses visualization and breathing exercises, which he performs during changes with a towel over his head.
For her 20th birthday, her team gave her 20 books, all in Polish, and the topics of the 20 books vary widely: from books about talent to literary classics. “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.”
Swiatek analyzes defeats to learn from her mistakes. He insisted on also looking at victories to focus on his strengths. “This kind of attitude has helped me believe that I can be more aggressive on the court and take advantage of my strengths.”
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