On Monday, for the first time after 75 weeks, Iga Swiatek will not be the No.1 women’s tennis player. Following her loss to Jelena Ostapenko in the fourth round of the US Open, the Pole journaled her feelings and shared her view of the situation on social media.
First of all, the 2022 US Open champion Swiatek doesn’t appreciate the term “defense” that is regularly being used to describe players trying to maintain their ranking position or win back-to-back titles at tournaments:
For me, sport is a cycle of constant changes exactly like in everyday life, we can either win or lose — that’s it, it’s so simple.