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Iga Swiatek taking on Caroline Garcia in Sydney.Credit:Getty

She has not lost a match since falling to Veronika Kudermetova in the Tokyo quarter-finals in September,and subsequently won that 1000-level title in Beijing and then the season-ending WTA Finals in Cancun. Now her streak stands at 15 matches – the second-longest of her career.

But those numbers only grow when supported by form,and Swiatek has been utilising the off-season to tweak her game with her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski,including working on some technical elements of her service action and diversifying her repertoire of shots.

“I played two volleys in today and also one drive volley,so that’s something that wasn’t so often[seen] before,” she said. “This is something that we worked on:me going forward a little bit and not always staying on the baseline.

“It’s something that we’ve been working with the coach actually since we started,but now I’m taking more shots from the air. So I’m happy that I feel like ... I’m going to be a player that has a more complete game than before. So for sure it’s a step forward.”

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