Iga Swiatek says girls’s tennis doesn’t want the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ and is ready to “stand by itself”.
Nick Kyrgios beat girls’s world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in December, 52 years after Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs within the authentic iteration of the occasion in an enormous enhance for the ladies’s recreation and its struggle for higher equality.
Swiatek, the present world No 2, didn’t see Sabalenka’s match versus Kyrgios in Dubai, telling reporters on the United Cup in Australia, which is stay on Sky Sports activities: “I do not watch stuff like that however for positive it attracted a variety of consideration, it was leisure.
Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka embrace after the previous beat the latter within the 2025 ‘Battle of the Sexes’
“I would not say it had something to do with social change or any vital matters. The title was the identical because the one from the Billie Jean King match in ’73, and that is it.
“I really feel girls’s tennis stands by itself proper now. We have now so many nice athletes and nice tales to current.
“We do not essentially want to check to males’s tennis and I do not assume there must be any [Battle of the Sexes] competitors.”
Sabalenka says she desires a rematch with Kyrgios after her straight-sets defeat.
Sabalenka is raring for a rematch with Kyrgios
Swiatek: United Cup is refreshing
Swiatek is enjoying for Poland within the United Cup, which sees every tie function one males’s, one girls’s and one blended doubles match.
She added: “I believe occasions just like the United Cup brings tennis all collectively. WTA followers and ATP followers can watch this occasion with a lot pleasure
“Singles gamers that normally haven’t got area to play blended doubles collectively enjoying these matches is what makes our sport far more fascinating and higher.
“We get so many regular tournaments on tour that, truthfully, it will get boring typically, so enjoying a crew occasion, having that totally different vitality and having the ability to speak to totally different folks, I believe is nice and actually refreshing.
“I’ll at all times select the United Cup.”
Watch the United Cup and much extra tennis stay on Sky Sports activities in 2026. Stream tennis and extra prime sport contract-free with NOW.
Iga Swiatek says girls’s tennis doesn’t want the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ and is ready to “stand by itself”.
Nick Kyrgios beat girls’s world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in December, 52 years after Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs within the authentic iteration of the occasion in an enormous enhance for the ladies’s recreation and its struggle for higher equality.
Swiatek, the present world No 2, didn’t see Sabalenka’s match versus Kyrgios in Dubai, telling reporters on the United Cup in Australia, which is stay on Sky Sports activities: “I do not watch stuff like that however for positive it attracted a variety of consideration, it was leisure.
Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka embrace after the previous beat the latter within the 2025 ‘Battle of the Sexes’
“I would not say it had something to do with social change or any vital matters. The title was the identical because the one from the Billie Jean King match in ’73, and that is it.
“I really feel girls’s tennis stands by itself proper now. We have now so many nice athletes and nice tales to current.
“We do not essentially want to check to males’s tennis and I do not assume there must be any [Battle of the Sexes] competitors.”
Sabalenka says she desires a rematch with Kyrgios after her straight-sets defeat.
Sabalenka is raring for a rematch with Kyrgios
Swiatek: United Cup is refreshing
Swiatek is enjoying for Poland within the United Cup, which sees every tie function one males’s, one girls’s and one blended doubles match.
She added: “I believe occasions just like the United Cup brings tennis all collectively. WTA followers and ATP followers can watch this occasion with a lot pleasure
“Singles gamers that normally haven’t got area to play blended doubles collectively enjoying these matches is what makes our sport far more fascinating and higher.
“We get so many regular tournaments on tour that, truthfully, it will get boring typically, so enjoying a crew occasion, having that totally different vitality and having the ability to speak to totally different folks, I believe is nice and actually refreshing.
“I’ll at all times select the United Cup.”
Watch the United Cup and much extra tennis stay on Sky Sports activities in 2026. Stream tennis and extra prime sport contract-free with NOW.
