Swiatek left frustrated as WTA Finals mystery rumbles on: "It's pretty unfortunate and annoying"

Current world number one Iga Swiatek is unhappy with the delay in the announcement of the WTA Finals venue.

The tournament is the last mega-event in the calendar year of women’s tennis and is scheduled to take place in October later this year.

Originally, the reports suggested that the tournament would take place in Japan but recent rumours suggest that the competition might be shifted to Saudi Arabia this year.

Swiatek, while talking ahead of the upcoming US Open 2023, stated her annoyance about the delay in the announcement of the venue for the event.

“I don't have a lot of thoughts because we hear many stuff on tour. I'm still waiting for, like, the final decision,” said the Polish tennis star. “We as players, we are not involved in all the discussions. I'm kind of waiting on what WTA will tell us. For sure it's pretty unfortunate and annoying we don't have any decision yet. But I'll see. I'll probably have more to say when the decision is going to be out.

“Well, obviously we want to know because it's hard to plan also what's going to happen after. I would love to play Billie Jean King Cup Finals, especially when we got a wild card. I don't know where the Finals are going to be, how it's going to look with the traveling and everything.

“It would be great, yeah, if the decision were made earlier. Especially when we were in Fort Worth, they kind of assured us the decision is going to be made at the beginning of the year. It is a little bit annoying, but as players there's nothing we can do, because it's all about business and negotiations that WTA has, so we kind of have to wait.”

Swiatek will be defending her title at the US Open this year and will begin her competition with a match against Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson on Monday.