By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday July 10, 2025
What’s the secret to Iga Swiatek’s Wimbledon success this year? No overthinking.
The Pole has done the work, shoring up her movement and making sure her serve and return are weapons to put her in control of rallies. The rest is down to let her muscle memory take over.
“I think there’s no place to overthink here,” she said on Thursday after reaching her first Wimbledon final with a 6-2, 6-0 blitzing of Belinda Bencic on Centre Court.
If you know Swiatek you know she always talks about playing instinctive tennis – intuition is the word she commonly uses to describe it. She hasn’t been able to do that in the past at Wimbledon, but it has all clicked into place for her this year at SW19.
We can chalk it up to some extra practice time and focus on movement.
“I think it’s easier if you haven’t won Roland Garros and also if you had more time to practice,” the five-time major champion, who will face Amanda Anisimova for the title on Saturday, said.
She’ll need her best instincts as the hard-hitting American in the final, and now that she’s reached her first Wimbledon final and won nine matches out of ten on grass this season, she’ll have a bedrock of confidence to rely on.
“You kind of have to follow your instincts,” she said. “If that is going well and you can rely on them for sure if you feel comfortable, so this is kind of fun in some way and different than on other surfaces where you have more time to build the rally or something. When you’re playing well, it’s easy to enjoy. But I would say this is the main difference.”
