Iga Świątek moved from Riyadh to Malaga a few days after the end of the unsuccessful WTA Finals tournament, in which she failed to advance from the group. The Polish player, together with her teammates, inaugurated the competition in this year’s Billie Jean King Cup finals on Friday. The “White and Reds” first defeated the Spanish and gained a historic advancement to the quarterfinals, and in an equally exciting clash with the Czechs, they won the right to play in the semifinals.
Our players will play for the final against the Italians on Monday, and in one of the matches we will probably see Świątek face Jasmine Paolini, who is currently fourth in the WTA rankings.
“She’s having a great season, she’s not an easy opponent. But even if it’s 1:1, I’ll go out for the doubles. This is my last tournament this season, last matches, and even if I die on the court, I’ll play,” declared the player from Raszyn.
Mikaela Shiffrin wins again. Iga Świątek reacts
And although Świątek is currently focusing primarily on training and the matches themselves, she is clearly also closely following what is happening with Mikaela Shiffrin. It is no secret that the Pole and the alpine skiing star have had a liking for each other for years , as they have expressed in the past.
The players have often congratulated each other on their successes, and there have also been declarations that perhaps one day they will meet on… the court. These words were said in April 2023 during a live broadcast on social media hosted by the organizers of the Laureus Academy plebiscite. “Yes. Of course. We will do it,” the tennis player from Raszyn promised at the time.
Świątek also did not pass by Shiffrin’s latest success indifferently. The American won her 98th World Cup victory over the weekend – this time the two-time Olympic champion triumphed in Levi, Finland. It is a tradition that the winner of the competition in this city “receives” a reindeer – the animal appears at the decoration ceremony and then stays with its herd in Finland anyway, but from that moment on it bears the name given by the slalom winner.
Shiffrin, who won for the eighth time in her career in Levi, this time decided on the name “Rori” (she had previously named her reindeer Rudolph, Sven, Mr. Gru, Ingemar, Sunny, Lorax and Grogu), and it was to this fact that Świątek reacted. The Pole added a humorous comment under the entry on the American’s fan club account, which included photos and names of all the reindeer “won” by the skier.
Waiting for “Iga”
~ wrote the tennis player.
The tennis player’s suggestion that she would like the next reindeer “won” by Shiffrin to be named “Iga” quickly became a hit. Świątek’s comment has been viewed more than 80,000 times and has received 3,000 “likes.”
