Iga Swiatek's dilemma, Emma Raducanu's accidental swear and Denis Shapovalov learns a lesson - Rome diary

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.

ATP RomeThiem’s wait goes on, Wawrinka posts first win since February 20212 HOURS AGO Her game style has got more and more aggressive and she arrives to Rome as the world number one and having won her last four consecutive tournaments. While in the past Swiatek used to enter the clay season feeling like she had to capitalise on every opportunity she had on her favourite surface, she is now in a position where she is a contender at any tournament on any surface.

“Right now the transition that I have to do to clay, it's pretty different because usually it was like, ‘Whoa, clay, finally I can play well’. Right now it's a little bit different because I feel like my level was high anyway,” the Polish top seed told reporters in Rome, where she is the defending champion.

Swiatek, the 2020 Roland Garros champion, paid tribute to Wiktorowski for helping her adjust her mindset on hard courts, but she also acknowledges she may have to revert back to her old style of play to be as successful on the red dirt. Gauff extends Kerber’s losing run as Fernandez and Halep also advance in Rome Thiem’s wait goes on, Wawrinka posts first win since February 2021 'Shut the f*** up!' — Shapovalov screams at crowd after umpire row boils over “For sure he helped me to change my attitude towards my game.

I kind of trusted him in terms of my more aggressive game. He convinced me to