By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday August 16, 2024
Iga Swiatek had a bucket listing assembly with two of tennis’ largest 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 lady” who simply occurred to attain a pic. Removed from Random, Swiatek is already greater than half method to matching Agassi’s complete Grand Slam haul of eight, although she’ll must 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 lady within the center. Kinda superb. 😍 pic.twitter.com/h9BCQBgnlx
— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) August 15, 2024
Swiatek is closing in on Graf in Paris, the place the German legend gained 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 yr in Paris.
When she was requested to call three folks she’d prefer to go to dinner with, Swiatek talked about Graf as considered one of them.
The Pole mentioned she’d prefer to be taught extra in regards to the psychological aspect of the sport from the legend Graf.
“It is onerous for me to match our kinds,” she mentioned. “Clearly we’re taking part in in numerous eras of tennis. It is sort of onerous to search out the identical issues, particularly along with her backhand and her slice, her volley, and me not with 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.
