{"id":9420,"date":"2025-08-02T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtrawire.com.ng\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2025-08-02T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:20:21","slug":"iga-swiatek-criticizes-ridiculous-media-reporting-as-she-doubles-down-on-past-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/?p=9420","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek Criticizes \u2018Ridiculous\u2019 Media Reporting As She Doubles Down On Past Claims\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"9421\" src=\"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iga-1024x594.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9421\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Iga \u015awi\u0105tek, fresh off her dominant Wimbledon triumph in July 2025, a commanding 6\u20110,\u202f6\u20110 win over Amanda Anisimova has taken aim at Polish media for what she described as <em>&#8220;ridiculous&#8221;<\/em> and misleading coverage of her and her team<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Iga Swiatek has taken aim at \u201cridiculous\u201d reporting in the Polish media, having previously criticised articles about herself and her team following her Wimbledon triumph.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World No 3\u00a0Swiatek\u00a0is still riding high off\u00a0the back of her stunning SW19 success last month, double-bagelling Amanda Anisimova in the final\u00a0to win her sixth Grand Slam title.\u00a0Victory at Wimbledon saw the 24-year-old end a 13-month trophy drought and cement her place back towards the very top of the sport, having fallen to world No 8 after her French Open semi-final exit.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>The Pole\u2019s form had been heavily scrutinized amid a drop in results, with Swiatek failing to make a final between the French Open in June 2024 and the Bad Homburg Open over twelve months later.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking after her Wimbledon success,\u00a0the former world No 1 told the Polish media to \u201cleave me alone\u201d\u00a0after heavy scrutiny of herself and her team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the <strong>Canadian Open<\/strong> press conference in Montreal, the world No.\u202f3 <em>&#8220;<\/em>Swiatek<em>&#8220;<\/em> revealed she rarely reads press coverage about herself. She admitted she made an exception during a recent break, only because she was curious and was stunned by the content she found, calling it full of <em>&#8220;weird things that totally didn\u2019t make sense&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swiatek reaffirmed her earlier plea following Wimbledon, when she urged Polish media to <em>&#8220;just leave me alone and let me do my job,&#8221;<\/em> pointing out that she and her team know what they are doing and have already proven themselves at the highest level. Currently riding a win streak and searching for her first Canadian Open title, Swiatek\u2019s message is clear: she wants the focus to remain on her performance, not sensationalized stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek has taken aim at \u201cridiculous\u201d reporting in the Polish media, having previously criticised articles about herself and her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportplug.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}