WATCH: Hubert Hurkacz gives a funny reply to Iga Swiatek’s celebrity contact lists including Rafael Nadal
Hubert Hurkacz,Iga Swiatek and other polish players had a funny interview session during the United Cup being held in Australia.
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Polish World No.10 Hubert Hurkacz opened up his funny side during a video shared by the United cup. The inaugural United Cup is ongoing in Australia until January 8th and the Polish team including Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz will start off their proceeding with a match against Kazakhstan on December 31st.
A video posted by the United Cup has surfaced recently. The interviewer asked a question to Polish World No.1 Iga Swiatek to tell her the celebrities’ phone numbers in her contact list. When Iga responded to it by stating “Ash Barty, Rafael Nadal…“, Hurkacz intervened and told “I mean seriously, those are tennis players… everyone…(has those numbers)” in a funny way making the whole room laugh. Iga Swiatek look liked she was trying to brag about having Rafael Nadal’s number as observed by tennis fans on Twitter.
Hubert Hurkacz is the highest-ranked Polish male tennis player. The 25-year-old’s change in outlook and way of speaking has caught the eyes of a lot of tennis pundits this season. Fans expect him to make deeper rounds in the tournaments as well and become a global icon like his compatriot and WTA World No.1 Iga Swiatek.
Hubert Hurkacz will be looking to enter Top-5 this season
Current World No.10 Hubert Hurkacz has had a roller coaster in 2022 so far. He started his season by competing in the Australian Open, but Adrian Mannarino defeated him in the second round. He then competed in the Dubai Duty-Free Tennis Championships where he finished as runner-up after losing to Russian World No.8 Andrey Rublev.
The Polish star was again defeated by Rublev in the quarterfinals of the Indian Wells but bounced back well by shocking the Former US Open champion Daniil Medvedev in the Miami Open quarterfinals. Here also, he had to finish as the runner-up behind the Spanish World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz. However, he and American John Isner won the men’s doubles title at the same competition.
He reached the quarter-finals in Monte Carlo before failing to the Bulgarian World No.32 Grigor Dimitrov. Then in the French Open, he lost to the eventual finalist Casper Ruud in the fourth round. He was able to win the Halle Open later in the season, the only title he has clinched so far this season.
After that, he lost in the first and second rounds of the Wimbledon and Washington Open competitions, respectively. In the Canada Open, he took revenge on Casper Ruud followed by defeating Nick Kyrgios before losing to Pablo Carreno Busta in the Final. He was eliminated in the second round of the US Open. He advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Cup and Astana Open, but fell to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Dominic Thiem, respectively, on both occasions.
The last 2 tournaments he played were ATP-500 Vienna open where he lost in the quarter-final to Croatian World No.27 Borna Coric and Paris Indoor Masters where he lost to the eventual champion Holger Rune in the pre-quarter-finals. Hurkacz has a career-high ranking of 9 which he reached on November 2021. By finishing his second consecutive year inside Top-10, the current World No.10 will be looking to make his way inside Top-5 in 2023.
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