WTA Miami: Iga Swiatek - With Hard Rock to the top
Iga Swiatek , new number one in the world rankings, is currently playing according to her taste in music and made the "Sunshine Double" perfect at the Hard Rock Stadium.
by SID
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Apr 03, 2022, 12:25 pm
Headphones on, turn up the volume and let the hard guitar riffs really push you - that's part of I ga Swiatek 's routine before their exploits. With songs like "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n' Roses or AC/DC's "Thunderstruck", the 20-year-old gets herself up to speed. And what the new number one in the world is currently delivering is also hard rock in the best sense of the word when it comes to tennis.
With an aggressive game, powerful basic strokes and a wide range of variants, Swiatek is currently unstoppable. The Polish made the "Sunshine Double" perfect with the next dominant performance in Miami on Saturday - appropriately in the "Hard Rock Stadium". After winning the tournament in Indian Wells, Swiatek snatched the trophy with a 6-4, 6-0 win over four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka of Japan. Before the brace in the USA, she had already won in Doha.
"I have the feeling that I have to celebrate," said Swiatek after her 17th match success in a row: "I don't know how much longer I can keep up this series." The 2020 French Open winner entered an elite circle - Swiatek has the double in Indian Wells and Miami as the fourth and youngest player after Steffi Graf (1994/1996), Kim Clijsters (2005) and Victoria Azarenka (2016) Done. "I feel quite privileged to be one of those players, I wouldn't have dreamed of it a few years ago," she said.
From Monday, Swiatek will lead the world rankings for the first time after Ashleigh Barty's resignation - and with a comfortable lead. The situation is tighter for men, but Novak Djokovic holds all the trumps when he returns to the Masters in Monte Carlo. The Russian Daniil Medvedev, who was at the top for three weeks at a time, signed off for "one to two" months because of groin surgery . The preparation for the French Open (from May 22nd) is severely disrupted, as is the case with Rafael Nadal (stress fracture on the rib).
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