(March 10, 2024) INDIAN WELLS TENNIS GARDEN – No. 1 Iga Swiatek exacted some revenge on Czech teen Linda Noskova on Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open. Swiatek, from Poland was ousted by the Czech at the Australian Open, but on Sunday she avenged the defeat with a 6-4, 6-0 win to advance to the round of 16.
Swiatek, admitted that she was thinking about her loss to Noskova in Australian.
“I was thinking about it, because basically we analyzed it after Australian Open and we focused more on what I did wrong. Because we were before, two weeks of training before tournaments in Middle East, so we talked about this match a lot. But honestly, this time it was much smarter to think about how to just play against Linda rather than focusing on my mistakes from that match.
“But still, my coach kind of watched it because it’s like the best material to have tactics based on. But I wouldn’t say it impacted me like in any negative way. I was kind of motivated to just play better and not do the same mistakes but to improve my game in some aspects.”
Swiatek actually rallied from a break down in the first set, before she started to roll over her opponent, by winning the last 10 straight games.
“I made some mistakes at the beginning,” she said. “I tried to maybe play to finish the rallies too early, you know. But I knew that if I’m going to try to stay consistent and make a little bit less mistakes, my chances may come. So for sure wasn’t comfortable, but I was ready to break back.”
Defending champion and second seed Carlos Alcaraz defeated former Top 10 player and No. 31 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada 6-2, 6-3.
“Well, I think the first thing that you have to do if you want to defend the title is you forget about you won the title last year,” said the Spaniard. “It’s about being yourself, being at 100% every day if you want to do a good results here.
“I’m not thinking about I have to defend the title, I have to play in the final. I’m just focusing on every day give my 100% in every practice, in every match how I can be better. I think if I’m following that path, I’ll do really good results. I think I approach the tournament like this.”
“I’m looking in every match how it feel, how I hit the ball, how I move. I lost in the quarterfinal in Australia but I left Australia with a good feeling. I was playing great. But, you know, after that I was not feeling as good as I want.”
“But for me it’s about feelings; not losses or winning.”
Alcaraz is coming off an ankle injury he sustained in Rio but he seems to have recovered well, noting his movement.
“I mean, I’m not going to say I forget it (the injury), but in the matches, I forget it at all. I move really well. I don’t think about ankle in the matches, in the practice. But outside the court of course I have to take care about it. I get treatment every day in the ankle, doing specific work for the ankle.”
“But yeah, once I step in the court, I forget it.”
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