People calling her an actress or faker for her reaction here have clearly absolutely no fucking idea how damn hard a tennis ball hits.
It hurts when your forehandless buddy hits you in the arm at the local club, imagine a pro at full speed in the stomach.
Having unranked players playing and getting thrashed here just because of stupid entry rules technicalities is an insult to both the sport and the olympism in general
Madrid, Rome, and Roland Garros is truly such an insane feat. And she made it look so easy that probably won't be rated as such. But it's 6 from 7 weeks competing at your best; almost 2 full months performing at the top of your capabilities.
For the first time in the Open Era a Grand Slam women's final will be contested by no players from the United States, Australia or Europe.
🇰🇿Elena Rybakina
vs.
🇹🇳Ons Jabeur
It's kinda weird to think given all her achievements and her incredible career that she was still missing this one thing.
But there it is, Iga Świątek gets her first career world number 1 win ✨️
Aryna was ahead of Iga in the race during the entire first 43 weeks of the season.
In the 44th, and last, she surpasses her and clinches the year-end number 1 spot.
Iga Świątek is now inside the Top 10 of most big titles won in the Open Era:
🇺🇸 Serena | 52
🇩🇪 Graf | 43
🇺🇸 Navratilova | 29
🇨🇭 Hingis |24
🇺🇸 Evert| 22
🇷🇸 Seles| 21
🇧🇪 Henin | 20
🇷🇺 Sharapova | 20
🇺🇸 Venus | 18
🇺🇸 Davenport | 16
🇵🇱 Świątek | 16
TennisTV milking every possible second from the best their product can offer.
Almost 80 (!) minutes of videos uploaded in less than 24 hours.
Highlights, press conferences, trophy ceremony, new angles... everything. That's how you do it.
"Due to overall physical and mental fatigue after an intense 9 weeks, unfortunately I do need to withdraw from the tournament in Berlin in order to rest and recover.”
We will miss you Iga 🥲 See you in the future!🫶
Y'all are so weird when witnessing dominance. Nadal thrashes Basilashvili 6-0 6-1 6-0 and I bet you not no one ever took that result to say "sEe thIs iS wHY meN's teNNiS iS So HorRiBLe", but a woman does the same and the whole tour belongs to the trash can.
They tried so hard to make Daniil a villain that they collected almost all of his iconic phrases and actions 😂
What a legend
@DaniilMedwed
AZ why was it necessary to call Daniil's name for about the entire episode, karma only came after two tournaments? What a pity ✌🏻
I know grass is not Iga’s surface, but when do we start labeling her as merely a clay court specialist? Outside of her USO win in 2022, her GS results outside of RG are mostly abysmal.
#Wimbledon
Sport changes for LA 2028:
✅️ In as optional:
Baseball (M) / Softball (W) ⚾️
Cricket 🏏
Flag football 🏈
Lacrosse 🥍
Squash 💢
➖️ Become permanent:
Skateboarding 🛹
Sport climbing 🧗🏻♂️
Surfing 🏄🏻♂️
❌️ Out:
Boxing 🥊 (TBC)
Breaking 🕺
It's funny how tennis media and fans demand clay court players (Ruud, Świątek, even Nadal back at the beginning of his career) to prove themselves on hard courts to consider them top class, but with natural hard court players, nobody really cares if they don't perform on clay
In honor to
#1GA
, a thread with all her career titles, from the one that started everything in Sweden in 2016, until Miami in 2022, the one that made her become the 28th world number 1 in history!
I was today years old when realized that in French the first deuce is called "quarante a" (forty all), and just from the second one it's "égalité" (deuce)
🚨 Iga secures the number 1 position until at least April 2. It will be 5️⃣2️⃣ weeks in a row at the top, a whole year since first becoming the ranking leader. Surpasses Azarenka as the 12th player with the most number 1 weeks.
Laver Cup needs to:
- genuinely embrace the concept of being an exhibition, and a fun one. This half-serious half-jokes thing doesn't work
- realize that they have a team called "World", not "English-speaking-North-America"
- get out of Canada/USA, diversify your audience!
Olympic tennis has proven that Roland Garros scheduling people and Mauresmo are both horrible at their job and blatant sexists.
Night after night, women's matches have been incredible experiences.
Meanwhile, their doing and words only gather all the misogyny from the world.
Dropping no sets and just 20 games to win 5 matches only against Top 8 opposition, with 3 bagels and 2 breadsticks included, and winning the final in under an hour, is absolutely insane behavior
#1GA
It's not "almost". It's *exactly*.
This is the week number 200 since she made her WTA Tour debut in January 2019. And she's spent 50 as number 1. Exactly 25%!
Madrid organizers seeing that today WTA had 2 matches involving 3 top 4 players, one even going to an epic 3rd set tiebreak, while ATP only got one set of play with a retirement and a walkover
[THREAD]
It's been a recurring topic lately how tennis events are distributed around the world.
I took the ATP Top 120 and compared it with the distribution of tournaments and points played per country.
Most benefited? 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳
Most disadvantaged? 🇦🇷 and South America
Reminder that Maja Chwalińska will gain a total of ZERO points despite having gone through qualies and made it to the main draw 2nd round. Those 110 points she'd deserve to gain would've made her go up to number 127 in the world, approximately. Great job WTA!
🇵🇱 Iga Świątek played yesterday the 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ th match of her career:
2️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ wins
0️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ losses
8️⃣0️⃣ %
6️⃣7️⃣ Grand Slam - 🏆x3
6️⃣4️⃣ WTA 1000 - 🏆x5
5️⃣5️⃣ ITF - 🏆x7
3️⃣8️⃣ WTA 500 - 🏆x5
2️⃣3️⃣ Qualy WTA
1️⃣8️⃣ Qualy ITF
1️⃣3️⃣ WTA 250
9️⃣ BJK Cup
7️⃣ WTA Finals
4️⃣ United Cup
2️⃣ Olympics
World
#1
Iga Swiatek improves to 6-0 vs.
#7
and AusOpen runner up Zheng Qinwen, beats the Chinese 6-3, 6-2 to reach the semifinals in Dubai.
7 consecutive wins
13 consecutive WTA 1000 wins
Yet to drop sets in the Middle East...
I wish they (McEnroe) would for once embrace the name of the team, *WORLD*, instead of making it the North-American-Buddies-Club-with-Kyrgios
Expectations: de Miñaur, Cerúndolo, Jarry, Wu, Etcheverry
Reality: Paul, Sock, Korda, Isner, Wolf
😴
Reminder that 29 men and 29 women have been ranked
#1
, while there have been 55 male and 56 female different Grand Slam champions.
Almost double the amount.
Again, granted that Sabalenka doesn't get a Charleston wildcard
🇵🇱 Iga Świątek has secured 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ weeks as number 1
📈 9th woman to ever surpass that mark
Wtf is this fact I just discovered?! The longest WTA match in history was a 6-4 7-6 (!!!) between Nelson and Hepner in 1984 that lasted 6 hours and 31 minutes. How is that possible?: the tiebreak alone took 1h47m. One point lasted 29 minutes: the ball crossed the net 643 times 🤯
— 3rd longest stint as first-time number 1
— 3rd longest stint this century as number 1
— Longest winning streak since first becoming number 1
— 10th most total weeks as number 1
— 86% of wins
— 97-16 record
— 3 Grand Slams
— 9 titles
Amazing 75 weeks,
#1GA
! 👏🏻
- First woman with multiple slam titles in a season since Kerber in 2016
- First woman with slam titles in multiple surfaces in a season since Serena in 2015
- First woman to win the RG-US double since Serena in 2013
Playing a field full of almost amateurs, needing 10% to reach 40 finals a year... Now it's actually competitive and physically demanding inside the entire Top 100. But okay!
Martina Navratilova says Iga Swiatek should ‘suck it up’ and not complain about being a bit exhausted - “you just suck it up and say ‘get on with it’”:
“I’ve played usually two to three events between Wimbledon and the US Open
I would be tired after the US Open but not before
Iga volleyed 27 times v. SST, had Linette and Gracheva running all over the court, was servebotting against peak Garcia, distributed aggressively from the back v. Gauff, chose to be solid and bring balls back v. Samsonova.
That's also variety. Not only hitting slices or drops.
By the official rules, the WTA was forced to pay last week $350,000 to the Guadalajara organization because of the number of Top 10 players that skipped the event 🥴
The ITF Tour is truly such a pit from hell. Going from this stage to play a W15 in front of 2 people to earn $200 must be depressing.
And partly why these performances rarely get replicated there the rest of the year when no one's watching.
But hope this time is different!
Men's draw looks balanced.
Iga got a very tough draw... Noskova/Shnaider R3, Penko/Collins QFs, Rybakina SFs. An absolute nightmare... if this wasn't Roland Garros and clay.
Gauff with a dream draw.
Iga appears 3 times on my newspaper today lol. Front page, sports front page, and full page article in sports section. And to be honest, first time I see such large coverage for any women's sports over here 😶