Iga Swiatek with recent coach Francisco Roig. –SWIATEK INSTAGRAM
World number 4 Iga Swiatek on Thursday announced that she was working with Francisco Roig, who used to educate Rafael Nadal.
“Welcome to the team, Francisco! Very excited for this recent chapter,” the 24-year-old Pole wrote on Instagram.
The news got here lower than two weeks after the six-time Grand Slam winner announced that she had parted ways with previous coach Wim Fissette following her second-round exit on the Miami Open.
It was the previous world primary’s earliest exit at a tournament because the Cincinnati Open in August 2021.
She has been in patchy form this yr, losing within the quarter-finals on the Australian Open, the Doha Open and Indian Wells.
Roig, 58, spent a few years working alongside Nadal’s uncle Toni Nadal after which Carlos Moya as a part of the Spanish clay court great’s team.
He has previously coached Britain’s Emma Raducanu, Italian Matteo Berrettini and Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.