Iga Swiatek reveals she does actually read what people have to say about her but usually does it after tournaments since she is interested in seeing outside opinions.
Since tennis is an individual sport and players can only get the full praise or blame, some prefer not to read anything about them because they simply do not want to deal with hecklers and potentially very mean comments.
And current world No. 1 Swiatek has the same approach during tournaments because she wants to stay completely locked in and not risk any outside voices getting to her. But after concluding her run, the 23-year-old Pole relaxes a bit in that aspect.
“I decide that myself, but I usually isolate myself quite a bit during tournaments. I only go online to post after each match. I don’t read any comments. But I usually catch up after the tournaments because I want to be aware of what people are saying,” Swiatek told SportoweFakty.
Over the last several years, social media abuse has become one of the biggest issues in tennis – the reason for that is already mentioned above. In the majority of cases when a player receives negative comments, it comes from a better who lost money.
And the Polish five-time Grand Slam champion was asked if such comments can indeed be “hurtful.”
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