{"id":1869540,"date":"2026-04-07T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1869540"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:00:18","slug":"rafa-nadal-seen-teaching-iga-swiatek-secret-to-trademark-forehand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1869540","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Nadal seen teaching Iga Swiatek secret to trademark forehand"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Rafa Nadal seen teaching Iga Swiatek secret to trademark forehand<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/author\/sam-cooper\" class=\"text-sm font-normal !text-author\"><br \/>\n                            Sam Cooper 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shots of his playing career.                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek is already getting tips from her idol Rafa Nadal after the Spaniard was seen coaching the world No 4 at his academy in Mallorca.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the expertise that Francisco Roig provides, an added bonus of Swiatek\u2019s new coaching setup is the chance to learn from a player she has confessed to being her favourite.<\/p>\n<p>After Swiatek confirmed the appointment of Roig on her social media, footage began to emerge of her practising at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca and one clip shows Nadal teaching her a specific skill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LukasFCB321\/status\/2041145382806180244\">In the video<\/a>, Nadal produces his trademark whipped forehand before explaining to Swiatek how he pulls it off.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Brad Gilbert, who commented on the video, described it as \u201cpriceless\u201d for Swiatek.<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek has been training on the Spanish island in recent days and already took to social media to praise the 22-time Grand Slam winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraining, learning and embracing each day here in Mallorca. Thank you @rafaelnadal for making me feel at home,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Swiatek has not been backwards in coming forwards about her love of the Spaniard and offered a glowing tribute when he hung up his racket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were and still are the biggest inspiration that I ever had in tennis and the reason why sometimes I got extra motivated and kept pushing myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for that and thank you for being such an amazing person off the court as well. Your humility is something that is not so often [seen] when you see other athletes succeeding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the one that always stayed honest with himself and true to himself. Thank you for being a really good person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you\u2019re going to enjoy the other part of your life and hopefully maybe some other career, because the sky is the limit for you now and I hope you will spend a lot of time with your close ones and your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for why she changed coaches to Nadal\u2019s former mentor, Swiatek admitted during an interview with Sport.pl that she was not feeling good on the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt it was simply time for a change. Yes, it wasn\u2019t a decision made in Miami \u2014 it was a longer process during which I carefully considered everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the tournament in Doha, I realised I wasn\u2019t feeling as good on court as I had before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, different tournaments can have different reasons for a poor performance \u2013 sometimes I just know I wasn\u2019t focused that day, sometimes my forehand was failing, sometimes something else. It happens. But I felt like I wasn\u2019t playing as well, and that\u2019s why I started losing confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter my loss to Maria Sakkari [in Doha], we sat down and had a long talk. We discussed what to change and how to approach the following week so I could get back to my solid game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd indeed, we made some progress before Indian Wells. But when I considered the whole picture, I decided I needed a change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next tournament on Swiatek\u2019s schedule should be the Stuttgart Open which has traditionally been her start to the clay season.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, she is a two-time champion having claimed back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 \u2014 beating Aryna Sabalenka in both finals \u2014 and was a 2024 semi-finalist and 2025 quarter-finalist.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Nadal seen teaching Iga Swiatek secret to trademark forehand Sam Cooper 07 Apr 2026 12:00 PM Nadal&#8217;s forehand was one of the signature shots of his playing career. Iga Swiatek is already getting tips from her idol Rafa Nadal after the Spaniard was seen coaching the world No 4 at his academy in Mallorca. 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