However the Polish star will not let the strain part her.
“[T]this is no level of considering, ‘Oh, this streak is getting lengthy. When am I going to lose?’ Or, I do not know, is it even doable to win so many matches?” she advised the WTA Insider Podcast.
“I simply do not give it some thought. I actually form of consider that the sky is the restrict and I can go even ahead.
“That form of angle of simply wanting ahead, not considering what’s already occurred actually helped me as a result of I am additionally saving power by not doing that. I am fairly pleased with myself,” she added.
Although it is not at all times plain crusing for Swiatek, whose successful streak was beneath risk on the French Open on Monday.
Zheng, 19, regarded on observe for a significant upset when she claimed the opener in a tiebreak earlier than Swiatek took management to win 6-7(5) 6-0 6-2 for her thirty second straight victory.
“It wasn’t straightforward to search out options and to search out different ways and do one thing otherwise, as a result of I wasn’t certain what I used to be doing flawed,” she mentioned.
“That is not the primary time. I am at all times singing one thing,” she revealed.
A household custom
Sport runs by way of Swiatek’s household, along with her father rowing for Poland on the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
“I feel we’re at all times targeted on work due to him, as a result of he had excessive expectations that we had been going to get good grades and we had been going to have good practices,” she beforehand advised CNN.
“Typically these expectations usually are not an excellent factor as a result of they’re strain for a kid, however in my case, I feel it actually helped me as a result of I realized learn how to be skilled.
“My sister obtained injured when she was 15 and she or he stopped taking part in tennis, however she has an important mind and she or he is learning rather well so I feel we’re each going to achieve success.”
Swiatek’s dominance comes at a time when there isn’t any clear challenger to her successful streak.
Ashleigh Barty, who was dominant on each floor having received Wimbledon, the French Open, and the Australian Open, all of a sudden retired from tennis earlier this 12 months at 25.
Victory within the French capital would additionally make Swiatek the primary lady to win six consecutive tournaments since Justine Henin did so between 2007 and 2008.
“However I am attempting to just accept that the streak sometime goes to complete. It is bodily and mentally laborious to maintain doing the identical job each week as a result of we’re additionally people.
“So I am simply going to attempt to discover somewhat bit extra distance to it and simply deal with the grand slam as another match and perhaps having fun with what’s round somewhat bit extra — having fun with that now we have someday off between matches as a result of right here it was fairly intense and I did not even get to see Rome. So in Paris, I hope it is going to be completely different.”
Ben Church and Aimee Lewis contributed reporting.
