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For far too long, tennis fans have eagerly waited for the new generation to take the game by storm. Now, at long last, Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are doing just that.
Iga Swiatek said she feels like a different player from a year ago and will go into her Italian Open title defence having cemented herself at the top of the women's game following a blistering start to the season.
Iga’s dilemma For a long time, Iga Swiatek considered herself to be a clay-court specialist and didn’t think she could adopt a hyper-aggressive game. Ad/> But then she hired Tomas Wiktorowski, Agnieszka Radwanska’s former coach, and started the 2022 season by making the Australian Open semi-finals and winning titles in Doha, Indian Wells and Miami – all on hard courts.
Iga Swiatek was on a roll but decided to rest her shoulder when withdrawing from the Madrid Open late last month. She is back this week and ready to defend her Italian Open title, with the fortnight away from the WTA Tour – which included a stint at Rafael Nadal’s academy in Mallorca – seemingly allowing her to press the reset button. Ad/> «It's pretty weird because I really rested, then they almost killed me on the practices,» Swiatek told reporters in the Italian capital.
Simona Halep and Victoria Azarenka advanced to the second round of the Italian Open in Rome while four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to an ankle injury. Halep, champion in Rome in 2020, beat France's Alize Cornet 6-4 6-4, exacting revenge for her fourth round loss at the Australian Open in January.
Former world number ones Simona Halep and Victoria Azarenka advanced to the second round of the Italian Open in Rome while four-times Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to an ankle injury.
Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the Italian Open in Rome to rest an Achilles injury ahead of the French Open, the WTA said on Monday. The four-time Grand Slam champion suffered the injury in her opening match in Madrid earlier this month, before struggling in a second-round loss to Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Iga Swiatek said on Monday she is feeling refreshed "mentally and physically" after missing last week's Madrid Open to rest a sore right arm. The Polish star is returning to action at this week's Italian Open, hoping to extend her 23-match unbeaten run. "I just had five or six days off, without a racquet, which was pretty cool," said defending Rome champion Swiatek.