Iga Swiatek Explains Why She Hasn’t Yet Watched Game of Thrones and The Sopranos

Iga Swiatek received a walkover from Marta Kostyuk in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters.

Iga Swiatek Explains Why She Hasn’t Yet Watched Game of Thrones and The Sopranos

Iga Swiatek doesn't like to watch things that are popular at the moment (Image via The Guardian, HBO, X/The Tennis Letter)

🔍 Explore this post with:

ChatGPTPerplexityGrok AIGoogle AI

Fear of missing out? Iga Swiatek doesn’t care. She would rather enjoy popular movies or TV shows when the excitement dies down a bit.

Swiatek recently watched Wicked, which stars Ariana Grande, whose music the Pole has finally started to enjoy, revealing that admiring Taylor Swift for years had kept her away from Grande’s songs. During the press conference after her win over Anastasia Potapova in her opening round of the Cincinnati Masters, the third seed urged the journalists to keep talking about Wicked, drawing laughter.

Swiatek then explained why she prefers to watch the popular stuff much later. And this is the reason why Swiatek has still not watched Game of Thrones as well as The Sopranos.

I don’t watch things that are popular at the moment. I don’t know why. The whole world is talking about them, and I’m like, ‘Whatever.’ And then suddenly, after a couple of months…

When asked to pick her favorite songs from Wicked, Swiatek chose ‘The Wizard and I’, ‘Popular’, ‘One Short Day’, and ‘Defying Gravity’. The second movie of the Wicked series, ‘Wicked: For Good’, will be released in November this year, and Swiatek would rather wait for it before seeing it on Broadway, comparing the situation to that of reading a book before and later watching the movie adaptation, so that this bookworm doesn’t ruin the visual images.

Iga Swiatek shares the shot she wants to learn from Daniil Medvedev

After her first-round match against Anastasia Potapova, Iga Swiatek sat for an interview with the Tennis Channel, where she was joined by Daniil Medvedev. The Russian ace congratulated the six-time Grand Slam champion for her Wimbledon win and said he wants to get motivated by Swiatek to end his title drought.

Daniil Medvedev, Iga Swiatek
Daniil Medvedev, Iga Swiatek (Image via X/Daniil Medvedev, The Tennis Letter)

Swiatek also wants to learn one thing from Medvedev. It’s his serve, the shot that Swiatek has yet to master.

I would say the serve obviously, because I wasn’t always the best server, and Daniil likes his serve. I always consider Daniil like a guy who’s winning a lot of points from the serve. So I guess that. And the ability to switch your positions on the return. I recently started to play my returns a little bit further back, not like Daniil, but a little bit more back.

While Swiatek has booked a spot in the fourth round after receiving a walkover from Marta Kostyuk, Medvedev’s run ended in the second round. Although he was successful in winning the first set against his opening-round opponent, Adam Walton, he failed to end the match in his favor despite hitting 18 aces.

Medvedev last lifted a title at the 2023 Italian Open (his first on clay). Since then, he has made it to six finals, including this year’s Halle Open, where Alexander Bublik denied him the win.

Swiatek, on the other hand, lifted her first title of the season at Wimbledon by dismantling Amanda Anisimova with a 6-0, 6-0 scoreline. It was her first title since her victory at Roland Garros last year, as well as her first on grass in her second final on the surface. She played her first grass-court final at the Bad Homburg Open, where Jessica Pegula defeated her in straight sets.

Swiatek, in the fourth round, will be locking horns with the winner of the clash between Sorana Cirstea and Yuan Yue. The 24-year-old has never progressed to the final in Cincinnati.

She is a two-time semifinalist, reaching the stage in 2023 and 2024. Last year, eventual champion Aryna Sabalenka knocked her out. Swiatek is chasing her 11th WTA 1000 title, the last of which she lifted in 2024 at the Italian Open by beating the Belarusian.

Also read: Daniil Medvedev Trying to Look up to Iga Swiatek Amid Title Drought: “Playing Much Better Than Me”