“I wasn’t solid enough and Coco Gauff used her opportunities much better” – Iga Swiatek shares her feelings about WTA Finals loss to American.
Iga Swiatek recently opened up about her feeling after losing to Coco Gauff in the second group match at the 2024 WTA Finals. This year marks Swiatek’s fourth appearance at the season-ending tournament, having previously competed in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Swiatek, who is defending her title this year at the WTA Finals after defeating Jessica Pegula in the final last year, was placed in the Orange group for the singles event alongside Gauff, Barbora Krejcikova, and Pegula.
The former World No.1 kicked off her campaign by defeating Krejcikova 4–6, 7–5, 6–2 in the first group stage match. However, she faced a setback in the second group stage match against Coco Gauff, losing 3–6, 4–6.
Following her defeat to the American, during the post match press conference, Iga Swiatek shared her thoughts on the match. She admitted that she wasn’t “solid enough” against Gauff during the match . She stated that inspite of having a better head-to-head score against Gauff, she always had to perform well in order to defeat the American.
“Oh for sure I wasn’t solid enough and Coco [Gauff] used her opportunities much better than I did. I had some break points that I didn’t win and for sure I made more unforced errors. And when you play Coco, you need to be solid even though our head-to-head was more positive for me, still never easy to win against her,” Swiatek said.
Swiatek also mentioned that she will hit the practice courts and improve her game before heading onto her third group stage match at the WTA Finals.
“So today for sure, she was a better player and yeah I’m gonna try to adjust a bit better in my next match and try to do some stuff tomorrow in the practice court to be better,” she added.