Tennis stars Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz are worthy No. 1 seeds as play is set to begin at Roland Garros.
, and Swiatek already notices the vagaries of repeated bouts with No. 2 Sabalenka and No. 4 Rybakina.“We played so many matches against each other that tactically we know our game pretty well,” Swiatek said. “But we also have to kind of come up with some different solutions sometimes, which is pretty exciting, because I never had that yet in my career. I think this is what the big three [men] had to do, for sure, when they played like, I don’t know, 30 matches against each other or even more.
Djokovic and Nadal have played 59 times , Djokovic and Federer played 50 times , and Federer and Nadal 40 times . Just getting going here, Swiatek holds a 5-3 record against Sabalenka, 25, and a 1-3 record against Rybakina, 23, and the Slam meetings are building, with Swiatek winning a 2022 U.S. Open semifinal with Sabalenka on her way to a third Grand Slam title, and losing a 2023 Australian Open fourth-rounder against Rybakina.
“The thing is during the season we don’t have much time to practice at all,” Swiatek said. “So I’m really using this time right now, because it’s my first week since I would say even Indian Wells [in March, when she lost a semifinal to Rybakina], when I have time to take everything slowly and just focus on my technique a little bit more. And yeah, I think it’s going to give me a lot of confidence going to the tournament.
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