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Iga Swiatek plays down chances of adding Wimbledon title to French Open crowns
Iga Swiatek has performed down her probabilities of including a primary Wimbledon title to her newest French Open crown.
World primary Swiatek secured her third straight Roland Garros triumph, and a fourth in 5 years, with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Jasmine Paolini on Saturday.
However the 23-year-old Queen of Clay has but to grasp the grass and was knocked out within the quarter-finals at Wimbledon final 12 months by Elina Svitolina.
Swiatek will start her preparations on the Berlin Open on June 17.
She mentioned: “I felt final 12 months that I may adapt faster. I’ll see what the plan is for this 12 months, as a result of final 12 months it was the primary time I used to be capable of play this event earlier than.
“I feel to play some matches earlier than Wimbledon is sweet, however however, I performed mainly nearly each match in Stuttgart, Madrid, Rome and right here, and so we have to maintain my physicality, as effectively.
“So we’ll see what the plans are. However I feel the most important progress I could make on grass proper now could be utilizing my serves that was higher, but in addition I don’t count on quite a bit.
“The balls are totally different. Total tennis is totally different on grass. I’ll simply see and I’ll work laborious to play higher there.
“Final 12 months’s outcome was fairly good. I really feel like yearly it’s simpler for me to adapt to grass.
“It’s an enormous problem. If I misplaced right here earlier, perhaps I might have the ability to play two extra weeks on grass after which be a greater grass participant, but when I might select, I really like taking part in on clay, so I’m not going to surrender that ever.”
Paolini, the twelfth seed from Italy, was a shock finalist having by no means progressed past the second spherical of a grand slam earlier than this 12 months.
The 28-year-old additionally reached the doubles remaining with compatriot Sara Errani, however they have been crushed 7-6 (5) 6-3 on Sunday morning by Coco Gauff and Katerina Siniakova.
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