If you’re an attentive viewer, you might have noticed that after the first sentence, Iga Swiatek left the seat with a notebook to go to the bathroom break.
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But what does the world number one write in this little notebook?
“I had to remember the key elements to keep doing the same things that worked before the second set,” she replied to a fellow journalist on Friday. But [ce n’est] To be honest, nothing special. Many things come to mind during the game and I always want to start a set the way I finished the one I just won.
So much for the history of the notebook.
Always the same routine
Swiatek also shared what his pre-game routine looks like.
“I still have the same. twenty minutes before [la rencontre], I start with a fairly intense warm-up with the headphones on my ears. I have this list of rock ‘n’ roll songs that I listen to and I go to the bathroom. Then I go to court.
This is a winning formula that has allowed him to get his hands on four trophies this season; at home in Warsaw, Poland, Stuttgart, Germany and Doha, Qatar. Swiatek also successfully defended its title at Roland-Garros.
In Montreal she is looking for a first crown on Canadian soil.