US Open: Bookworm Iga Swiatek jokes about the disadvantages of her favorite hobby
At a US Open press conference , Iga Swiatek humorously revealed that excessive reading can also lead to problems for tennis players.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Sep 04, 2021, 01:48 pm
Last year's French Open winner, Iga Swiatek, is definitely one of the more reflective players on the WTA Tour, which can be seen again and again at the press conferences of the major events. Whether this is only due to the 20-year-old talent's great passion for reading cannot be said with certainty - it definitely does no harm to the likeable Polish woman.
Shortly before Swiatek struggled to triumph in her second-round match against Fiona Ferro from France, the Western Slavonian had finished reading Margaret Mitchell's 1000-page tome "Gone with the Wind", which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and was filmed with great success . It took her about three weeks to do this, said the current eighth place in the world rankings at the subsequent press conference: “I finished reading it yesterday and cried. Maybe that's why I was so emotional in the match. "
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Of course, the journalist who asked the question immediately asked whether she was often emotionally influenced by books: “No, that was a joke. But once, when I was still a junior, there was a situation when I couldn't stop reading a book. So I read until 2am and lost the next day. That was pretty stupid. But I was 16, other people go to parties, I just read a book until 2 am. "
By the way, in round three Swiatek will face Estonian Anett Kontaveit, who won the WTA Tour 250 event in Cleveland just last week. Which book the Polish woman will tackle next remained open at the press conference.
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