Iga Swiatek de retour en finale au WTA 1000 de Madrid ! Battue au dernier stade de la compétition l'an dernier par sa rivale Aryna Sabalenka, la Polonaise n'a toujours pas remporté le tournoi madrilène. Elle compte bien remédier à cela dès cette année. Très facile sur ses trois premiers tours, la n°1 mondiale avait perdu son premier set de la quinzaine en quarts contre Beatriz Haddad Maia. Ce jeudi, elle a repris son rythme impressionnant en domptant la solide Américaine Madison Keys, 6-1, 6-3. Un match où la reine de la WTA n'a pas concédé le moindre break.
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00:00 How confident are you?
00:03 Pretty confident. Every tournament that I play I have a pretty good result in.
00:09 So yeah, really confident and kind of happy that I can play consistently in the semifinals, finals and sometimes win.
00:18 It's a great place to be, honestly, and I'm happy that hard work pays off. So yeah, really confident.
00:27 I mean, not really because most of these matches you can see the score and based on that, but there's much more besides the score to work on.
00:40 I wouldn't say it was easy because at the beginning I didn't have a lot of time to adjust to the conditions.
00:50 I had to do that during the tournament a little bit, but overall, I mean, my matches were pretty good and I played efficiently.
00:59 So I'm happy that I could play that way and be kind of fresh even before the final.
01:07 I would lie if I didn't have random thoughts. I have them, but the thing is what you're going to do with them.
01:15 I wouldn't say that my focus is always constant because some days are better, some days are worse.
01:21 But even if it's a little bit worse, I know that I can still play good tennis and win.
01:30 So yeah, well, I have some skills. That's what we basically have been working on since the beginning of my work with Daria.
01:42 But I wouldn't say I need to work on it more. I just need to implement this stuff in the right moment during the match if I feel like my focus is getting down.
01:53 Congrats. You've won near to 80% after your second serve. Have you done a specific work on it and what work have you done?
02:06 Sorry, I didn't hear the second part.
02:11 Have you done a specific work if you have done such a work?
02:15 No, I wouldn't say so. I just didn't feel like I need to work on my second serve. We kind of focus more on the first.
02:25 It was always good, especially on clay. So I think the surface kind of makes it even better.
02:38 Obviously, whoever you face tomorrow is an opponent you know very well and that you've played many times.
02:43 I'm curious, is it the point where you've played each other so many times where at least for you the game plan is very clear,
02:50 even without looking at tape of what you have to do on Saturday, regardless of whether it's Irina or Lena, or is there still like trying to figure out the matchup?
03:02 Obviously, we're trying to figure out because we kind of know what I should play, but sometimes it wasn't easy to implement it.
03:09 So I still feel like I haven't played this match where I tactically played the best from the beginning to the end against this player.
03:19 So this is something that I want to kind of improve.
03:25 So it's not like we need to change a lot, but we need to stick to the plan and I need to implement it a little bit better I think sometimes.
03:35 In the interview, Anabel Medina was asking you to say something in Spanish, but when you say "ya está" in English it would be "it's done".
03:51 In Spanish it's like "ya está hecho", but it's a Polish word. How do you…
03:57 What does it mean in Spanish?
03:59 It's done.
04:01 Oh.
04:03 Ya está, but how do you say it? Ya está?
04:06 Ya está.
04:08 It's like if you were Spanish.
04:10 Well, thanks. That's what I wanted from the beginning. Nobody ever thought that I'm actually speaking Spanish when I say "ya está".
04:16 You have to learn.
04:19 Thanks for figuring it out finally.
04:20 Hi, congratulations.
04:28 There's an ongoing debate on the two-weeks tournaments like this. Some players say that they prefer to have a day off, some others that they want to be more time at home. What are your thoughts on that?
04:44 Honestly, it's hard to say because I can sympathize with both these opinions. There for sure are times where it feels like we're kind of having these days off and it would be nice to finish earlier.
04:59 For example, a week off before a Grand Slam, then maybe we can have some longer time and come back home for a bit. We're in that kind of situation where we are going to be leaving homes for more than two or three months and we need to adjust to that.
05:18 On the other hand, it really helps when you have a day off to be ready physically for the next match. I would say physically it's easier to recover during the tournaments, but mentally you need to be ready for these long tournaments without having days off.
05:37 Because even when we have a day off, we usually come here and practice and we see courts, we see these faces, we eat the same food, so it's not like you can totally switch off.
05:47 On one hand it's easier physically, on the other hand mentally sometimes it's tough. We're not really the ones that are deciding that, so we kind of have to adjust. That's all.
06:06 What are your thoughts about the final, even if it's Arena or Elena?
06:10 My thoughts are that I'm happy that we can play a final against the top players. Whoever is going to win the second semi-final is going to play in the final because it shows consistency.
06:23 For sure it's going to be a challenge whoever it's going to be and a tough match, so I'll be ready. I'll focus on myself and we'll see.
06:33 We'll see.
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