Iga Swiatek's ex-coach shares concerning update from Pole's camp

's former trainer Jolanta Rusin-Krzepota has raised concerns about what has been going on in her camp behind the scenes. The Pole is currently preparing for the , where she will be hoping to win the women's title for the fourth year in a row. She will not be heading to Roland Garros as the favourite, though, given her patchy form over the last few months.

Swiatek suffered an early exit from last week's Italian Open, losing to Danielle Collins in the second round. She has also been handed a tough draw for the French Open with Emma Raducanu potentially awaiting her in round two. Other big-name players to feature in her section of the draw include Elena Rybakina, Belinda Bencic and Jelena Ostapenko.

Rusin-Krzepota, who left Swiatek's camp six years ago, is convinced that personnel changes have done little to help her cause. A rebuilding process took place in 2019 after she broke into the world's top 50 and reached her first WTA final.

"When successes started coming, the team was rebuilt," Rusin-Krzepota told . "New people appeared and some things simply did not work the way they should have. It's about a professional approach.

"The changes meant that the team that was working stopped working in a way that made me feel like this was my place to work. I didn't want to agree to some things.

"The changes that are needed, new incentives, are understandable, but we're talking about different changes here."

Rusin-Krzepota also spoke about excessive 'interference' from certain members of the team, suggesting that Swiatek might not be surrounding herself with the right people.

"I still have Iga's best interests in mind," she added. "I still have a huge sentiment for her. She is still a very young girl and I would not want my statements to affect her in any way.

"I will say this: whoever joins the team, and it does not matter whether it is a physiotherapist, psychologist or dietician, is responsible for their areas for the good of the player and for maintaining nice and healthy relationships.

"Unfortunately, this was missing here. There was too much interference in the competences of others, for example in the already established schemes of my warm-ups. There were changes introduced, new elements added without communicating with me.

"You know, I understand cooperation, new ideas, introducing novelties, but all this should be agreed, discussed, and not introduced without communication. It was very tiring for me that I constantly had to solve these situations."