Prime-ranked Iga Swiatek is separating from her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski.
The Polish tennis participant introduced the cut up Friday, saying the choice was taken collectively.
In the course of the three years Swiatek labored with Wiktorowski, the Polish participant received 4 of her 5 Grand Slam titles and rose to the highest of the ladies’s rankings.
“After 3 years of the best achievements in my profession, along with my coach Tomasz Wiktorowski we determined to half means,” Swiatek wrote in a submit on Instagram. “I need to begin with a giant thanks and appreciating our work collectively.”
Swiatek appointed Wiktorowski as coach on the finish of the 2021 season. He helped her seize 19 of her 22 profession titles and an Olympic bronze medal in Paris in August.
“Coach Wiktorowski joined my staff for 3 seasons, after I strongly wanted adjustments and a recent strategy to my sport,” Swiatek continued. “His expertise, analytical and strategic angle and large data about tennis helped us to attain issues I’ve by no means dreamed of just a few months after we began working collectively.
“Our fundamental aim was to grow to be No. 1 participant on this planet and coach Wiktorowski was the one who stated it first.”
Swiatek hasn’t competed since dropping to Jessica Pegula within the quarterfinals of the US Open.
She withdrew from this week’s China Open in Beijing — the place she would have been defending champion — citing private causes. The 23-year-old Swiatek additionally pulled out of the current Korea Open in Seoul, citing fatigue.
“Attributable to this necessary change on my staff, I give myself a few weeks to start out a cooperation with a brand new coach,” Swiatek wrote. “I am in the course of first talks with coaches from overseas (non-Polish) as a result of I am able to take the subsequent step of my profession. I’ll let you understand after I decide.”
Wiktorowski was voted the WTA’s Coach of the Yr by his friends final yr.
“Coach, THANK YOU, I want you all the most effective,” Swiatek wrote. “I do know that you simply want to relaxation after these 3 years of onerous work and touring quite a bit and spending some nicely deserved time along with your family members and I hope you may get what you want.”