(Warsaw) The Polish Iga Swiatek, current world No.1 in the WTA rankings, announced Friday that she had separated from her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski and that she was therefore withdrawing from the tournament in Wuhan, China (7-13 october).
“After three years of greatest success in my career, we decided with coach Tomasz Wiktorowski to end our collaboration,” the tennis player wrote in a post on Instagram.
After this “important change”, Swiatek decided to withdraw from the Wuhan tournament scheduled for next week, the organizers announced, citing the player, who “needs time” before returning to the circuit.
Following her quarter-final loss at the US Open in early September, Swiatek had already withdrawn two weeks ago from the Beijing tournament where she was the defending champion, citing “personal reasons”.
“I want to start with the thanks which are, for me, the most important today,” she said in her message.
“His experience, his analytical and strategic attitude and his enormous knowledge of tennis helped us achieve things that I would never have dreamed of just a few months after the start of our collaboration,” Swiatek underlined about his ex-coach. .
“Given this important change for me, I am giving myself the next few weeks to begin a collaboration with a new coach,” she wrote, indicating that discussions were being held “with foreign coaches.”
“I will signal when I make the decision,” said Iga Swiatek, who has occupied first place in the world rankings since November 2023, already qualified for the Masters, which brings together the eight best players of the year in Riyadh (November 2-9). ).
The 23-year-old has won five Grand Slam singles titles, including four at the French Open.