By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday August 16, 2024
Iga Swiatek had a bucket record assembly with two of tennis’ greatest stars on the Cincinnati Open.
The five-time Grand Slam champion posed for this pic with tennis’ pre-eminent energy couple, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, calling herself the “random woman” who simply occurred to attain a pic. Removed from Random, Swiatek is already greater than half technique to matching Agassi’s complete Grand Slam haul of eight, although she’ll should work for some time if she desires to catch as much as 22-time Graf, who’s the one winner of the Golden Slam in tennis historical past, and a 22-time main champion.
Have a look at this. Simply two legends and a random woman within the center. Kinda wonderful.
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— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) August 15, 2024
Swiatek is closing in on Graf in Paris, the place the German legend received six of her 22 Slams. Iga has 4 of these, and have become the one girl in historical past to win 4 Roland-Garros titles earlier than turning 25 this 12 months in Paris.
When she was requested to call three folks she’d prefer to go to dinner with, Swiatek talked about Graf as one in all them.
The Pole stated she’d prefer to be taught extra concerning the psychological aspect of the sport from the legend Graf.
“It is exhausting for me to match our types,” she stated. “Clearly we’re enjoying in numerous eras of tennis. It is sort of exhausting to search out the identical issues, particularly together with her backhand and her slice, her volley, and me not having the ability to play these sort of issues. So extra about mentality.”
Swiatek is into the quarterfinals at Cincinnati – she’s going to face Mirra Andreeva on Saturday.
