{"id":105123,"date":"2025-08-29T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/105123\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:11:11","slug":"iga-swiatek-faces-odd-questions-during-post-match-us-open-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/105123\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek faces odd questions during post-match US Open press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek had a bizarre exchange with a reporter following her second-round singles win over Suzan Lamens on Thursday at the U.S. Open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, the No. 2 seed in this year\u2019s women\u2019s draw, was asked about her hair and if she would consider putting beads in it by a journalist in her post-match press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The question appeared to be a reference to the beads that Naomi Osaka wears in her hair, but Swiatek had no interest in entertaining the inquiry and snapped back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iga Swiatek is asked in her press conference whether she would consider putting beads in her hair.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.2 gives the question short shrift.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Swiatek and the Polish media have been apparent for some time now <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pyPdqf4P4W\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pyPdqf4P4W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 talkingtennis (@talkingtennis22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkingtennis22\/status\/1961165895306547565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of question is that, excuse me? If I wanted to weave beads in my hair? No. What\u2019s going on?\u201d she responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reporter walked out of the press conference room, and Swiatek was putting her head in her hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36964505\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2232584610.jpg\" alt=\"Iga Swiatek of Poland returns a shot against Suzan Lamens of the Netherlands during their Women's Singles Second Round match on Day Five of the 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2025 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-36964505\"  \/>Iga Swiatek returns a shot during her three-set win over Suzan Lamens in the second round of the U.S. Open on Aug. 28, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The interaction wasn\u2019t the only back-and-forth she had with a reporter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During questions in English, she was grilled by a reporter over whether she felt that the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/27\/sports\/taylor-townsend-gets-into-fiery-us-open-moment-with-jelena-ostapenko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">between Taylor Townsend and Je\u013cena Ostapenko<\/a> on Wednesday exposed a double standard in sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak about every sport, because I don\u2019t have enough knowledge, you know. We\u2019re in this environment, we\u2019re in the tennis world, we\u2019re thinking about tennis mostly,\u201d Swiatek answered. \u201cBut, you know, I think obviously the world\u2019s changed throughout the years, and I know that there has been some issue yesterday, but honestly, I was so focused, I had [an] early match, so I wasn\u2019t really \u2014 I\u2019m not caught up on that. I\u2019m probably going to catch up today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36964508\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2232569990.jpg\" alt=\"Iga Swiatek of Poland reacts against Suzan Lamens of the Netherlands during their Women's Singles Second Round match on Day Five of the 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-36964508\"  \/>Iga Swiatek pumps her fist after winning a point during her second round win over Suzan Lamens at the <br \/>U.S. Open Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you can\u2019t really judge from a behavior of one person the whole community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reporter continued to try and press Swiatek before the English portion of the availability came to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her win \u2014 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 over Lamens \u2014 sends her to the third round of the tournament to face Anna Kalinskaya on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek had a bizarre exchange with a reporter following her second-round singles win over Suzan Lamens on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,616,82,593,25853],"class_list":{"0":"post-105123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-iga-swiatek","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}