Świątek didn’t play any warm-up tournaments on grass after her impressive clay court season and added that on grass she needs “to keep patient and accept some mistakes.” “For me going from this kind of tennis where I felt like I’m playing the best tennis in my life to another surface where I kind of struggle a little bit more, it’s not easy,” she added.

World No. 1 Iga Świątek crashed out of Wimbledon on Saturday as she suffered a shock third round loss to Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, ending her 21-match winning streak.

Świątek had not lost a match for almost three months, a run that included a dominant French Open win, and it initially seemed that the Pole’s streak would continue when she took the first set 6-3. But world No. 35 Putintseva rallied and dropped just three games in the next two sets to seal a 3-6 6-1 6-2 victory.

Afterwards, Świątek admitted that she knows “what I need to change” for her Wimbledon preparations after another underwhelming tournament where her best result still remains reaching the quarterfinals in 2023.

“My tank of really pushing myself to the limits became suddenly empty,” she told reporters, per Reuters. “I was kind of surprised. But I know what I did wrong after Roland Garros. I didn’t really rest properly. I’m not going to make this mistake again.”

Świątek didn’t play any warm-up tournaments on grass after her impressive clay court season and added that on grass she needs “to keep patient and accept some mistakes.”

“For me going from this kind of tennis where I felt like I’m playing the best tennis in my life to another surface where I kind of struggle a little bit more, it’s not easy,” she added.