Iga Swiatek has plenty of interests off court, and on numerous occasions she’s showcased her impressive pop culture knowledge. (We know there isn’t a bigger Swiftie on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz.)<\/p>\n
But one pop culture area where she’s a bit lacking, she admitted, is film.<\/p>\n
At this week’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, the six-time Grand Slam champion has been using the off days to improve her movie game, with special attention given to 90s films.<\/p>\n
“I’m watching the classics from [the] ’90s,” she said after her 6-0, 7-6 (2) victory over American Kayla Day. “It’s super nice. Legends of the Fall and English Patient. Intense movies, but I love them.<\/p>\n
“I always needed to get more movie knowledge in my life, because I know a lot about books, TV shows. But movies, not really. I’m still learning.”<\/p>\n
Asked which of those two films she preferred, the World No. 2 couldn’t choose, and admitted that both romance flicks have gotten to her.<\/p>\n
“They are all basically Oscar nominated or won Oscars,” she said. “Hard to pick. But I’m crying on every show.”<\/p>\n
Swiatek erases 5-1 second-set deficit in opening Indian Wells win<\/p>\n
The English Patient won nine Oscars — including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress — and Legends of the Fall\u00a0won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.<\/p>\n
In addition to watching epic 90s movies, Swiatek has passed the time reading books and playing with LEGOs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the court, the two-time Indian Wells champion is now into the third round, where she’ll play 32nd seed Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n
A little less than a month ago, Sakkari came from a set down to upset Swiatek 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the Doha quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Ahead of this match, Swiatek knows what she needs to do to reverse that outcome.<\/p>\n
“In Doha, it was, for me, quite obvious why I lost,” she said. “And immediately when I went off the court, I knew what to improve. Like technical-wise, I didn’t really prepare for some of the shots as [well as] I should. When we got back home, I really practiced hard.<\/p>\n
“Also, I played many longer rallies to not lose patience in the middle of it, and really be able to grind. Because against Maria, you need to be ready for a physical match.”<\/p>\n
This will be the rubber match in their head-to-head, as Swiatek and Sakkari have split their eight career WTA Tour meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek has plenty of interests off court, and on numerous occasions she’s showcased her impressive pop culture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-526117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526117","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=526117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}