Iga Swiatek has become a dominant force in tennis but it’s not only her game that she is getting recognizable about as she has kinda become a meme queen on social media. Those memes are mostly made by fan accounts that are run by Swiatek’s fans and there is no any harm in them.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case in the middle school, where “mean kids” used to go at Swiatek. Swiatek admits she is not sure whether to be happy or sad about being a meme queen. “Honestly, I was already a meme queen at my middle school.
But that was pretty mean from the other kids. But I was. Maybe that’s another thing I was born to do. I don’t know if I should be happy or sad about that,” Swiatek told the WTA Insider Podcast.
Swiatek starts the clay season with a title
On Sunday, Swiatek dominated Aryna Sabalenka 6-2 6-2 in the Stuttgart final.
It was Swiatek’s 23rd consecutive win and a fourth consecutive title. Swiatek wasn’t accompanied by coach Tomasz Wiktorowski and sports psychologist Daria Abramowicz but still managed to win it all. “It didn’t matter for me if my whole team is here or not because on court I’m by myself anyway.
But for sure at some points, I felt like I was missing some of the people I lean on,” Swiatek said. “Daria was also talking to me. We had a few sessions this week, must overall about the clay season and my feelings here and how I can shift my focus from all these doubts to actually working harder and finding solutions and maybe being excited about having the challenges that I have.
So we worked a lot on my attitude. They’re working really hard even though their bodies are not here. So all credit to my team because without them I would be really confused here.”