A video in which the Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek showed her ignorance of the WTA finals qualification rules of Riyadh went viral on social networks, to a greater extent than his own withdrawal from the tournament.
Swiatek lost this Thursday for a crush 6-1 and 6-0 over Russian Daria Kasatkina on the last day of the group stage.
When he entered that game, The world number 2 thought that to get into the semifinals she had to beat Kasatkina and hope that, at the next turn, American Coco Gauff (already qualified) defeated Czech Barbora Krejcikovathere are options too.
But last morning WTA corrects various combinations which must be given for the classification of one or another player. The key is in The status of Kasatkina’s successorwho stepped in mid-tournament for injured North American Jessica Pegula.
The reciprocal condition means that the result of the Kasatkina match is not taken into account to break the tiebreakers. Therefore, the quarrel between Polish and Russian is indifferent: Win or lose, Swiatek is counting on Gauff to beat Krejcikova to advance to the semifinals.
Warsaw player He found this out at the press conference after his matchwhen a reporter asked him how he handled a game he knew was pointless.
“You mean it doesn’t matter?”answered Swiatek. Then he looked into a camera and asked, “because?”.
“The complex rules of infringement”they answered from the room. “Didn’t anyone tell you?”
“That?”he repeated with a frown.
Then a manager explained: “Basically, whether you win or lose doesn’t matter, what matters is the result afterwards.”
The player shrugged his shoulders, tilted his head with a gesture of disappointment and after a few seconds he whispered: “Oh…thanks.” The room erupted in laughter.
When asked if he would have played differently if he knew the result didn’t matter, he replied: “Honestly, I don’t think it matters. We go out there to win every game, so… I don’t think about that. I didn’t know it was like that.”
“I’m professional enough to always give 100% no matter what’s at stake. So no,” Indian.
In any case, Gauff’s loss against Krejcikova confirmed the Czech’s passage to the semifinals and the elimination of Swiatekwhich opened a debate in the networks about whether the mistake of the Polish woman was justified or not but, above all, in terms of the tiebreaker in the contest.
Most fans have already expressed if Swiatek and Krejcikova both have two wins and one loss and Swiatek won the particular confrontation between the two, the Pole should have been through.
Source: La Verdad
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