By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Photograph credit score: Brad Penner/US Open/USTA
NEW YORK—Iga Swiatek’s aggressive engine helps drive the WTA’s recognition.
World No. 1 Swiatek restated her criticism of a crammed WTA calendar. The Tour schedule is a loopy practice and gamers must schedule extra stops, Swiatek mentioned in the present day.
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The 2022 US Open champion Swiatek withstood the jitters saving three set factors earlier than successful the ultimate 5 factors of the tiebreak in subduing fortunate loser Kamilla Rakhimova 6-4, 7-6(6) in her US Open first spherical on Arthur Ashe Stadium in the present day.
Afterward, Swiatek mentioned gamers are feeling the squeeze and asserted it “can be straightforward to repair” for the WTA, however they’ve already dedicated to tournaments.
“Effectively, it will be straightforward to repair it for those that are in cost, however they already made loads of selections they usually promised so many issues to tournaments, WTA, for instance, that, you already know, it will imply for them to alter their thoughts, which is hard, as a result of it is enterprise,” Swiatek mentioned. “However I feel gamers are conscious that that is loopy what is going on on, and the schedule is basically robust.
“I spoke about it in Cincinnati, for instance, and there are folks saying that, oh, I haven’t got to play so many tournaments, however reality, like the very fact is that we have now so many obligatory tournaments that we actually must, you already know, present up and we do not have time to, like, work on stuff or, like consider peacefully, as a result of from one event we’re going straight to a different.”
The 23-year-old Swiatek has already posted a 54-7 report on the season with far more tennis to be performed. Swiatek’s important calendar feedback in Cincinnati prompted former No. 1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov to tear her as a continual complainer on social media.
“Is somebody pushing you to play,” he wrote. “All you fricking do is complain!! I’ll let you know what you deserve! You need to receives a commission quite a bit lower than you do now!! How about that??”
is somebody pushing you to play ??? All you fricking do is complain!! I’ll let you know what you deserve ! You need to receives a commission quite a bit lower than you do now!! How about that??✌️😉 https://t.co/Oc4GBS0ll4
— Kafelnikov Yevgeny (@KYevgeni) August 17, 2024
Kafelnikov, who routinely led the ATP in mixed matches performed (singles and doubles), mentioned stars have an obligation to help the tour.
Nonetheless, Swiatek says whereas it isn’t wholesome for the tour to proceed to push gamers in such a demanding schedule, however concludes gamers “haven’t got a lot affect on what is going on on.”
“And that is the case for, like, we do not even have, you already know, time till the tip of the yr, as a result of actually the primary event begins on twenty ninth of December. So yeah, the season is, for positive, too lengthy,” Swiatek mentioned. “I feel it must be modified, as a result of additionally, I feel it will be higher for followers. As a result of they are not going to see their favourite gamers, like, pull out or getting injured a lot, I feel.
“And we are able to current higher high quality, I might say. I imply, we might. However yeah, as I mentioned at the start, I noticed from final yr that we do not have a lot affect on what is going on on, you already know, upstairs, and mainly these guidelines have been modified with out us even figuring out about them, you already know.”
