NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Good thing Iga Swiatek had a Swift start to her U.S. Open. There was some big news waiting when she got off the court Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Swiatek quickly found out that Taylor Swift had become engaged to boyfriend Travis Kelce<\/a>, a topic that dominated her postmatch news conference much more than matters of tennis.<\/p>\n Swiatek has been a devoted Swiftie for more than a decade, got a handwritten note from the singer<\/a> while attending an Eras Tour concert shortly after winning the 2024 French Open and knows her way around Swift\u2019s music just as well as she does the court.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously she had a lot of boyfriends, so we know all about that. So hopefully this one will, you know, stick forever,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cTravis seems like a great guy. She seems super happy, so I\u2019m happy for her.\u201d<\/p>\n The 24-year-old from Poland had an easy start to her quest to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon in the same year, needing just an hour to beat Emiliana Arango 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n That seemed largely forgotten soon after. Her team showed her the news of Swift and Kelce \u2014 who attended last year\u2019s U.S. Open final<\/a> together \u2014 on Instagram, which conveniently happened right around the time she was wrapping up her match.<\/p>\n \u201cShe posted when I finished,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s not a coincidence, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n Swiatek listened when Swift was the record guest on the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast<\/a> Kelce does with his brother, Jason, eager for news about the singer\u2019s next album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d Swiatek will obviously buy it \u2014 she\u2019s just not sure how yet.<\/p>\n \u201cI kind of want to go to the store and buy it there physically,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if there are going to be other ones released, because she does these countdowns on the website. I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s going to do another one or something. But maybe next one I\u2019m going to actually preorder, but for sure I want to have the original, the first one, and I\u2019m probably going to go in October to some store and buy it physically.\u201d<\/p>\n Swiatek was puzzled when some reporters laughed at the number of Swift questions she received, and jokingly denied a request to tackle an actual tennis one.<\/p>\n She played brilliantly in a match in which she won the point on 23 of 26 first serves and had a 26-5 advantage in winners in the opening match of the day on Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n