Iga Swiatek hurting tennis by sporting ‘her hat so low’: ESPN analyst Jimmy Arias

Jimmy Arias has an issue with the best way Iga Swiatek performs tennis. 

The previous males’s world No. 5 and now commentator for Tennis Channel and ESPN mentioned Swiatek, who’s the present ladies’s world No. 1, was not “nice” for the game. 

“From my standpoint, I don’t suppose she’s been nice for ladies’s tennis,” Arias mentioned on the “Inside In” podcast. 

“As a result of she wears her hat so low that you may’t even see her face or her eyes throughout a match, so that you don’t get a connection as a lot as you possibly can. I don’t thoughts her getting offended in some methods, however I need to see her character.”

Swiatek, 22, is the highest participant on the planet, and you possibly can little question see her smiling beneath her hat Sunday when she gained her fourth title of the season and fifteenth of her profession.

Whereas the Polish tennis star was knocked out of Wimbledon 2023 within the quarterfinals by Elina Svitolina, she redeemed herself on her residence court docket on the Poland Open final weekend. 

Swiatek beat Germany’s Laura Siegemund 6-0, 6-1 on Sunday to safe the title.

“I need to thank my group and my household,” Swiatek mentioned, according to EuroSport. 

“It’s not simple to play in Warsaw, however I’m so joyful that we might handle and do every little thing we might immediately, after a reasonably tiring day yesterday. I needed to place all of it in and go for it. I’m fairly joyful that I did.”

The Poland Open victory comes after Swiatek opened the season with the Doha Worldwide and Stuttgart Open titles earlier than profitable her fourth Grand Slam trophy on the French Open in June. 

Arias, who retired from tennis in 1994, additionally made feedback about Nick Kyrgios, which prompted the Australian professional to hit again on Twitter on Sunday. 

Arias, 58, took a shot on the day off Kyrgios has taken, partially attributable to harm, and claimed he “doesn’t do all of the issues which can be truly troublesome and make it arduous,” according to Tennis World. 

“You bought some form of subject? Though I had no thought who you had been earlier than my mate messaged me 10 minutes in the past, I’d recognize if you happen to stored my identify out of your mouth to maintain you related… properly not less than to present you some type of credibility,” Kyrgios said to Arias on Twitter.