World No. 2 Iga Swiatek will join Poland’s squad for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals after initially planning to miss the event, which will take place from November 13 – 20 in Malaga, Spain.
Swiatek was left out of the Poland squad when the 12 teams in the event announced their line-ups on Monday September 16, but she then missed tournaments in Beijing and Wuhan, China while replacing coach Tomasz Wiktorowski with Wim Fissette. Swiatek will thus be fresher than she expected for the event, which immediately follows the season-ending WTA Tour Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia which ran from November 2 until November 9. Swiatek exited in the round-robin stages despite a 2-1 record.
“See you in Malaga! I’m happy to announce that I will play in the BJKC Finals,” Swiatek wrote on X, Tuesday 22 October.
“I’m glad that I’ll play for my country and proudly represent Poland.”
In a 2023 Instagram post announcing her decision to skip the BJK Cup, Swiatek described having to travel from Cancun, Mexico to Glasgow, Scotland in a 12-hour window as “not safe for our health.” She won that year’s WTA Tour Finals, thrashing Jessica Pegula in the final.
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