If we are searching for positives, Emma Raducanu has only lost to one player at the majors this season. But her French Open ...

Gauff, who added grip expert Matt Daly to her coaching team after splitting with Brad Gilbert, whipped Swiatek’s notoriously heavy forehand onto the lines time and again throughout, varying ...

Iga Swiatek has the same intensity on the ... “She finds it’s very tricky and I think with the grip she has on the forehand side, she’s quite round on the forehand and when players keep ...

But Andreeva claimed the first break of the match for a 5-4 lead, Swiatek opening the door with a double fault and a forehand into the net before firing a forehand crosscourt wide. Swiatek broke ...

Initially, Gauff’s forehand looked to need a grip adjustment, too. Like Swiatek, she basically grips her racket from underneath the handle — a heavy western grip. Changing a forehand grip ...

“(On Swiatek’s forehand) That’s the big problem I think she has,” the seven-time major champion said. “This is really a plan that most players [have] realised, this is what I have to do ...

Colin Fleming, a former world No 17 in doubles, agreed that Swiatek’s forehand is the biggest concern. “Swiatek was out of sorts, she really looked like she was struggling on her forehand ...

She had found her range. Both on her first serve and on her forehand. What followed was unpredictable. The American broke ...

and moments when it looked as if she had shaken off her self-doubt and reined in her often-wild forehand. But those moments didn’t last. Instead of getting better, Swiatek finished with two of ...