{"id":118223,"date":"2025-09-04T02:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118223\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:26:08","slug":"swiatek-snaps-back-at-mental-break-question-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118223\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek Snaps Back at Mental Break Question \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, September 3, 2025<br \/>Photo credit: Jed Jacobsohn\/ROLEX<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Post-match pressers after painful defeats aren\u2019t often morale-boosters for some champions.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Anisimova avenged her humbling double-bagel loss to Iga Swiatek in the Wimbledon final, sweeping the second-seeded Pole 6-4, 6-3 to surge into her maiden US Open semifinal today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756590617_740_USOPEN-610X150-Slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55316\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afterward, an ornery Swiatek snapped back at a journalist who asked if she needed a mental break following her heavy workload.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Swiatek beat Jasmine Paolini in the Cincinnati Open final played on a Monday then flew straight to New York where she partnered Casper Ruud to reach the newly-reimagined US Open Mixed Doubles final where they fell to defending champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Swiatek was in no mood for deep reflection on her mental state after her US Open and 11-match major winning streak was snapped by Freehold, New Jersey native Anisimova.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iga Swiatek\u2019s response to being asked if she needs a mental break after loss to Anisimova at U.S. Open<\/p>\n<p>Iga: \u201cDo you need a mental break?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iga: \u201cYou look like you need a mental break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iga: \u201cThen what are you doing here?\u201d \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p8Yfxrv755\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/p8Yfxrv755<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1963385685089685751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 3, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the exchange as it occurred near the end of Swiatek\u2019s post-match presser.<\/p>\n<p>Q: How tired are you at the moment?<br \/>IGA SWIATEK: Well, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s not like my<br \/>matches were exhausting here.<br \/>Q. Do you feel like a mental break? I\u2019m not talking<br \/>about the loss as such.<br \/>IGA SWIATEK: Why would you say that?<br \/>Q. I just wondered. It\u2019s just a lot in a row. Do you look<br \/>forward to a break?<br \/>IGA SWIATEK: Well, talk to people responsible for the<br \/>schedule. Do you need mental break?<br \/>Q. Sorry?<br \/>IGA SWIATEK: You look like you need mental break.<br \/>Q. I do, yeah.<br \/>IGA SWIATEK: Well, then what are you doing here?<br \/>Q. Got to get to the end of the tournament.<br \/>IGA SWIATEK: Good luck<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, September 3, 2025Photo credit: Jed Jacobsohn\/ROLEX NEW YORK\u2014Post-match pressers after painful defeats aren\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-118223","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118223","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=118223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}