Iga Swiatek says girls’s tennis doesn’t want the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ and is ready to “stand by itself”.
Nick Kyrgios beat girls’s world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in December, 52 years after Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs within the authentic iteration of the occasion in an enormous increase for the ladies’s recreation and its combat for larger equality.
Swiatek, the present world No 2, didn’t see Sabalenka’s match versus Kyrgios in Dubai, telling reporters on the United Cup in Australia, which is reside on Sky Sports activities: “I do not watch stuff like that however for certain it attracted lots of consideration, it was leisure.
“I would not say it had something to do with social change or any vital matters. The identify was the identical because the one from the Billie Jean King match in ’73, and that is it.
“I really feel girls’s tennis stands by itself proper now. Now we have so many nice athletes and nice tales to current.
“We do not essentially want to check to males’s tennis and I do not assume there must be any [Battle of the Sexes] competitors.”
Sabalenka says she desires a rematch with Kyrgios after her straight-sets defeat.
Sabalenka is keen for a rematch with Kyrgios
Swiatek: United Cup is refreshing
Swiatek is taking part in for Poland within the United Cup, which sees every tie characteristic one males’s, one girls’s and one blended doubles match.
She added: “I believe occasions just like the United Cup brings tennis all collectively. WTA followers and ATP followers can watch this occasion with a lot pleasure
“Singles gamers that normally do not have area to play blended doubles collectively taking part in these matches is what makes our sport rather more attention-grabbing and higher.
“We get so many regular tournaments on tour that, actually, it will get boring generally, so taking part in a workforce occasion, having that completely different vitality and having the ability to discuss to completely different individuals, I believe is nice and actually refreshing.
“I’ll all the time select the United Cup.”
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