ATP pro David Goffin revealing that someone had spat chewing gum at him during the first round.
Later on in the press conference, Swiatek suggested that these comments may bring her under fire in matches to come at the Paris major, “I know that French crowds can be kind of harsh, so I don’t want to be under the radar right now. So, yeah, I don’t know if that was a good decision or not, but I hope they can treat me as a human and just we can kind of work on it.”
After coming through a three hour battle with Osaka, Swiatek will now move onto play the winner of Marie Bouzkova and lucky loser Jana Fett.Inside the baseline…This is a very tricky subject to tackle, and it was brave of Iga Swiatek to address the crowd after she felt aggrieved during some points in the thrilling and very tight match with Naomi Osaka. Crowds being excited and loud are great, especially for matches during Grand Slams where the eyes of the world are watching, but when it comes to the detriment of the players competing then that is not acceptable.
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