“WTA needs to reevaluate their scheduling” – Iga Swiatek’s withdrawal from the Guadalajara Open has fans enraged at the WTA for terrible scheduling

Iga backs out of Guadalajara due to changing schedules.

“WTA needs to reevaluate their scheduling” – Iga Swiatek’s withdrawal from the Guadalajara Open has fans enraged at the WTA for terrible scheduling

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The World No.2, Iga Swiatek pulled out of the Guadalajara open in Mexico citing a tight schedule and travelling congestion as her reason. While she had earlier planned to return on Tour in this Open, she said a change of schedule haltered her journey and said that she needed to stay fit for the upcoming WTA 500 in Tokyo next month.

Swiatek further added, “I need to listen to my body and the season is very intense — our number one priority is to play it until the end in good health and plan it wisely so we wouldn’t risk an injury.” Iga’s fans all over the World who expected her to return to court in the Guadalajara Open are dejected and blaming the WTA for poor planning and scheduling of the events.

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After a shocking 4th round exit at the US Open 2023, Swiatek failed to defend her title and was supposed to make a comeback at Guadalajara but backed out later due to changing schedules to which the fans have reacted on social media against the WTA for scheduling such tightly packed events very close to each other.

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Many have come to sympathise with Iga on this issue realising the mental toll the Tour takes on players. Others have called out to the WTA to re-schedule tournaments.

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Iga to forget her disappointing US Open loss and stage a comeback at the WTA 500

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While her comeback at Guadalajara Open is out of the question, Iga Swiatek will look to avenge her US Open loss at the WTA 500 in Tokyo at the start of the next month. The current French Open Champion will look to end the year on a high and hope to perform even better in the next year starting with the US Open. Her pulling out of the tournament in Mexico has gathered quite a lot of responses from people and has started a discussion on the rescheduling of events by the WTA.

Some of the reactions to the scheduling were:

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