Reigning Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek has announced that Francisco Roig has joined her coaching team ahead of the clay-court season.<\/p>\n
The former world No 1 parted ways with Wim Fissette<\/a> \u2013 with whom she started working in October 2024 \u2013 after a disappointing Sunshine Double as she lost in the quarter-final of the Indian Wells Open and the second round of the Miami Open.<\/p>\n Swiatek started the hard-court swing at No 2 in the WTA Rankings behind Aryna Sabalenka, but she has slipped to No 4 with Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff moving ahead and she decided it was time for a change after the Florida event.<\/p>\n Roig \u2013 who worked with 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal for more than two decades and recently coached Emma Raducanu<\/a> \u2013 was top of the list of potential coaches named by Polish media and the rumour mill went into overdrive when it was announced that Swiatek would train at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca ahead of the clay-court swing.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, the six-time major champion gave a lengthy interview to Sport.pl and confirmed that she asked Nadal for advice about her next coach, but refused to give anything away.<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek reveals when she decided to end Wim Fissette partnership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek: What has gone wrong for the former world No 1 and why the next two months are crucial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s someone I can turn to if I need help or have a problem to solve,\u201d she said of tennis great Nadal. \u201cHelp from someone so experienced \u2013 in fact, the best, the GOAT \u2013 is obviously a wonderful opportunity and I\u2019ll take advantage of it whenever I can. Rafa is very open. He\u2019s a great guy.<\/p>\n \u201cThe very fact that I have his number and can get in touch with him is a great honour for me. But to be honest, whether he helped me [in choosing a coach \u2013 rl] or not, I\u2019d like to keep that between us, because he\u2019s part of this story. I wouldn\u2019t want to put him in an awkward position.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the announcement was made on Thursday morning with the 24-year-old sharing an image of Roig on her Instagram Story, accompanied with the caption: \u201cWelcome to the team, Francisco! Very excited for this new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n Roig will be the Pole\u2019s fourth full-time coach since she turned professional in 2016 as Piotr Sierzputowski coached her from 2016 until 2021. He was replaced by Tomasz Wiktorowsk who left in 2024 before Fissette took over.<\/p>\n Swiatek and Roig will now have a week to adapt before their first tournament at the Stuttgart Open from 13-19 April.<\/p>\n The post Iga Swiatek\u2019s 11-word message as she announces \u2018new chapter\u2019 with new coach<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reigning Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek has announced that Francisco Roig has joined her coaching team ahead of the clay-court season. The former world No 1 parted ways with Wim Fissette \u2013 with whom she started working in October 2024 \u2013 after a disappointing Sunshine Double as she lost in the quarter-final of the Indian Wells […]<\/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-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Iga Swiatek News<\/h2>\n