Swiatek in awe of having Navratilova at WTA Finals: "The biggest problem I had was keeping focus when you’re sitting here"

Iga Swiatek booked her place in the WTA Finals semi-finals by taking down Caroline Garcia but her focus in the match was distracted a few times by Martina Navratilova.

The legendary player made her way to Texas to watch some high-level WTA tennis and Swiatek was in awe of her presence. Speaking to Amazon Prime after the match, Swiatek joked with Navratilova who was also there as an analyst, about how she distracted her:

"The biggest problem I had was keeping focus when you’re sitting here."

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On the match itself, Swiatek said:

"Well, Very because I knew she is putting a lot of pressure on her opponents so I didn’t want to crack and I was kinda surprised when we played in Warsaw [Poland Open] on how she changes the rhythm when she is just you no staying inside the court and hitting as fast as possible but this time I was ready for that and also you no I’m practicing with men so I’m kinda used to this fast ball and I know what to do I just had to implement that on matches."