Iga Swiatek hasn't had too much success at Wimbledon in the previous years but she's not thinking of the past this year.
Swiatek is a player who has advocated for mental health more than once in her career. Having dealt with some serious doubts about her own capabilities and career, the Polish player saw things turn around once she started working with a sports psychologist.
She's now number one on the WTA Tour and has been for more than a year feeling mentally stronger as well. A crucial part of that is having a healthy mindset and towards that goal, Swiatek doesn't really think about the past.
Wins or failures that happened in the past don't define her and there is very little incentive to think about them. The present and the future is most important and while she didn't do that well at Wimbledon in the past, she's focused on doing that this year.
Honestly I'm not coming back to last year, especially with the fact that we don't have to, like, defend points. I feel like last year was, I don't know, a little bit different, especially coming back after winning Roland Garros. It wasn't, like, the easiest moment for me.
I try really not to come back to that. I'm just taking experience from just this period of time of playing on grass, and that's all. It's just a totally different chapter, so yeah.
Going as far as she can is important for her but she's not thinking about winning the trophy necessarily. Taking one match at a time and simply focusing on getting better is the right way to go about things because she'll be coming to Wimbledon every year for the next decade and just working on getting better certainly will get her where she wants to be - a contender on the surface.
She played a few matches in Bad Homburg and proved to herself that she can play well on the surface and it's continued at Wimbledon. She recently joined the 40-win club for this year and the hope is to go to number 45 which would mean that she went far in the event.
Whatever she's been doing so far in London has been working so there is very little reason to change it. Next up is the biggest challenge for her so far on the green - Belinda Bencic. She leads the H2H 2-1 but lost their only Grand Slam match in 2021.
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