Katie Swan now practises her mental game along with her forehands after revealing her off-court struggles a year ago. The Fed Cup star shared her feelings in a searingly honest post on social media after losing in the third round of French Open qualifying. “Every match I lost I didn’t just feel like a worse tennis player, but also less of a person,” she admitted then.
But Swan, now 21, had felt empowered to open up after already starting talking to a London-based psychologist. And the British No.6, speaking from her home in Kansas, said the work is ongoing even without Roland Garros this May. “Speaking to a psychologist impacted on me really quickly in a short space of time,” she said. “I was feeling so much better and I thought it was a