Thursday\u2019s headlines from the 2026 Miami Open include Iga Swiatek being set for a linkup with Rafael Nadal, and a claim that there was \u201ctension\u201d between the Pole and her ex-coach Wim Fissette.<\/p>\n
We also have news of Arthur Fils achieving the \u201cbest result\u201d of his career to date, Elena Rybakina making a confession about her \u201cattitude\u201d, and Alex Eala receiving advice about her game.<\/p>\n
Here is our latest roundup of the biggest stories from the Hard Rock Stadium and beyond in the tennis world.<\/p>\n
Swiatek split with Fissette, who she had been coached by since October 2024, after her shock loss to Magda Linette in Miami.<\/p>\n
Former world No 1 Kim Clijsters worked with Fissette between 2009 and 2011, and she has claimed that her fellow Belgian\u2019s coach-player relationship with Swiatek did not seem \u201cnatural.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see that there was tension already for a few months and frustration and that their natural kind of player-coaching relationship wasn\u2019t really where it should be at, and I think those were a couple of red flags,\u201d said the four-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n
Read more: Iga Swiatek: Former world No 1 spotted \u2018tension\u2019 with Wim Fissette and \u2018a couple of red flags\u2019<\/a> Swiatek idolises 22-time major winner Nadal, and she will train at the legendary Spaniard\u2019s academy in Mallorca in preparation for the clay-court season, according to a report in Poland.<\/p>\n In addition, Swiatek\u2019s long-time physiotherapist Maciej Ryszczuk has revealed the world No 3 intends to have a new coach in place for her next tournament in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n Read more: Iga Swiatek set for Rafael Nadal linkup as her physio reveals \u2018plan\u2019 for new coach<\/a> Fils, the world No 31, saved four match points to beat 23rd-ranked Tommy Paul 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 7-6(6) in a thrilling two-hour-47-minute Miami Open quarter-final.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old Frenchman has described reaching his maiden Masters 1000 semi-final as \u201cthe best result I had in my life so far.\u201d<\/p>\n He is up to 28th in the Live ATP Rankings and could climb to 22nd if he beats Jiri Lehecka to reach the final.<\/p>\n Read more: Miami Open: What did Arthur Fils say after epic Tommy Paul win? And how has it affected his ranking?<\/a> In the first set of her 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 quarter-final win over world No 5 Jessica Pegula in Miami, Rybakina had a disagreement with her coach Stefano Vukov as she declared: \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The world No 2 admitted afterwards: \u201cI didn\u2019t start well at all and got frustrated with my mistakes, I started rushing and couldn\u2019t control my attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more: Miami Open: Elena Rybakina makes confession about her attitude after argument with coach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Eala exited the Miami Open with a crushing 0-6, 2-6 fourth round loss to world No 14 Karolina Muchova \u2014 the same scoreline by which she lost to Linda Noskova in the same round in Indian Wells earlier in March.<\/p>\n Former world No 4 Greg Rusedski has assessed that the 20-year-old Filipina must improve her serve to become less vulnerable to these one-sided defeats.<\/p>\n Read more: Alex Eala told where she needs to improve by former British No 1 as a worrying trend emerges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust<\/strong><\/p>\n The post Swiatek looks to Nadal as Fissette \u2018tension\u2019 emerges, Rybakina\u2019s confession, Fils\u2019 \u2018best result\u2019, Eala gets advice<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday\u2019s headlines from the 2026 Miami Open include Iga Swiatek being set for a linkup with Rafael Nadal, and a claim that there was \u201ctension\u201d between the Pole and her ex-coach Wim Fissette. We also have news of Arthur Fils achieving the \u201cbest result\u201d of his career to date, Elena Rybakina making a confession about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nSwiatek to train at Nadal\u2019s academy<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nFils achieves \u2018best result\u2019 with epic Miami win<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nRybakina makes \u2018attitude\u2019 confession<\/h2>\n
Greg Rusedski\u2019s message for Eala<\/h2>\n