“Iga Swi ± tek could have been disqualified. I have not seen such a thing yet”

(9th WTA) in the November WTA Finals in Guadalajara she was doing poorly. In the first match, she lost in less than 1.5 hours with Greek Maria Sakkari (6th WTA) 2: 6, 4: 6. Just like the defeat, the behavior of the Polish woman at the end of the match, in the last game, could be very disturbing. Sakkari made Iga Świątek cry. The Polish woman turned her back to her rival for a moment, lightly hit the wall twice with the racket, ignoring the judge’s warning,

Swiatek risked disqualification

It turned out later that the behavior of Iga Świątek was a premenstrual syndrome. This issue has not yet been raised in the media.

– It is disturbing to some extent, but not only Iga has such problems. Not only does she cry or get nervous after the game. Her burst of tears after the defeat at the Olympics is not unusual, because the vast majority of the players despair after the game, but in the dressing room, Iga simply did not manage to get there. It was very disturbing that before the match ball in the match in the WTA championship, at one point she was unable to calm down and simply risked being disqualified. I have not seen such a thing yet – says Joanna Sakowicz-Kostecka, former tennis player and tennis expert at Canal + Sport

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The psychologist Daria Abramowicz also spoke about Iga Świątek’s behavior in early December in an interview with “Wyborcza”. – Together with Iga, we had a long talk in Guadalajara with Martina Navratilova and with. When the topic of PMS came up, Navratilova rolled her eyes and said, “Oh God, how many times has this happened to me!” This topic did not appear as an excuse, but as a factor that influences the quality of a task’s performance. This thread is not present in the public space. Unfortunately, this is a taboo subject not only in the sports environment. And the players are especially afraid to talk about it, because they don’t want it to be recognized as their excuse that they justify their weakness in this way.

Iga Świątek is already getting ready for the new tennis season. The Polish woman will start the next year with a performance at the WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide, in which she triumphed this year.