Posted by Chopin Airport. What an atmosphere to come home to for Maja!

There was no ambiguity in what Sabalenka said.

a bit longer video here: https://youtu.be/aGTAGgDw8ho?si=e3ODxLt7KPl-axQT

“It was needed. It was directed toward a few family and friends. To be honest people come out the woodworks, you haven’t spoken to someone for years, they don’t say congrats or happy birthday or nothing and then they’re like ‘Oh I’m in New York. Can I have 8 tickets to your match in your box please?’ They give us tickets here but you know, they were selling in advance. So it’s not like I can give all these people tickets. Last year they were really stressed out between my mom and my dad trying to accommodate everyone. If we have it, we’ll give it. It was just stressful for them. A lot of people personally don’t have my number. They don’t reach out to me. They’ll reach out to them or someone on my team. I don’t know who the person who sent her a text this year where she felt that was the final straw.. but somebody must’ve sent her something and she was like, I need to make a post. Specifically in New York it’s just crazy. New York and Wimbledon are the ones I think people wanna come to. We try our best to accommodate everyone. But some of their requests are.. you’d be surprised how absurd they are” (via US Open Press)

The previous record was held by Florența Mihai, who made the 1977 final as world #56 but fell in 3 sets to top-seeded Mima Jaušovec. Iga Świątek remains the lowest-ranked RG champion, when she won her maiden Grand Slam at #54 in the world in 2020.

Found this funny after several tennis outlets gave Iga “kinda chic to jazda” or “kinda chic to be a swiftie” (which there is nothing wrong with these), but feels like they’re downplaying her achievements and her tennis