Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek says tennis didn’t want the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ between Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka as the ladies’s recreation “stands by itself”.
Ladies’s primary Sabalenka and male participant Kyrgios confronted off in a extremely publicised exhibition in Dubai every week in the past.
Kyrgios gained the match – performed on a modified courtroom designed to offer a stage taking part in discipline – in straight units.
However Swiatek says tennis has come a great distance for the reason that unique ‘Battle of the Sexes’ between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973 which highlighted the ladies’s recreation preventing for legitimacy and prize cash.
“I have not watched [Sabalenka v Kyrgios] as a result of I do not watch stuff like that,” the world quantity two stated.
“I feel for certain it attracted lots of consideration. It was leisure, however I would not say that had something to do with social change or any essential subjects.
“I feel the identify was simply the identical because the one from the Billie Jean King match in ’73. That is it. There have been no extra similarities as a result of I really feel like girls’s tennis stands by itself proper now.
“Now we have so many nice athletes and nice tales to current, we do not essentially want to match to males’s tennis.
“Actually, there would not have to be any competitors.”
