2020 Roland Garros Final: [54] Iga 'Silent Terminator’ Swiatek vs [4] Sofia ‘Crazy Dad’ Kenin

[Ralph]

Hope so too, but her thanks in the post match speech seemed reluctant. Perhaps it was just my interpretation.

What I like about Świątek (aside from her play and on court manner) is her humility - at least that which she showed in her thank you speech. No arrogance whatsoever, and genuine thanks to those closer to her.

Perhaps we should rename Kenin as Captain Obvious?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1314982030908694530

 

[ALEXT]

Happy for Iga! She totally deserves the title.

 

[chrischris]

I do get crazy dad vibes from Kenin. Maybe not Dokic-grade, but she ALWAYS looks like she is moving with purpose, as if being pulled around the court by fear. Is there an actual crazy dad or is this just the vibe?

She looks unhappy.

 

[volleyandfun]

A little over a month ago she lost in straight sets to Christina McHale @ Cincy. Then Azarenka beat her pretty easily @ US Open (not a bad loss though). Less than a month ago she lost in straight sets to Aranxta Rus @ Rome.

Then she wins RG without dropping a set. It’s not a particularly logical progression...

That's not true. Azarenka publicly praised her. Aside from loosing to Osaka, this was the toughest match Azarenka played at USO 2020

 

[Mainad]

Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish citizen, but she has a Polish heritage.

Pete Sampras has Greek heritage but he is counted as American where he was born and grew up.

 

[volleyandfun]

Pete Sampras has Greek heritage but he is counted as American where he was born and grew up.

Kerber was born in Germany, plays for Germany, she has Polish parents , speaks Polish and lives in Poland. What do you figure?

 

[Mainad]

Kerber was born in Germany, plays for Germany, she has Polish parents , speaks Polish and lives in Poland. What do you figure?

I figure she identifies herself as German which is the country where she grew up and plays for. None of which denies her Polish heritage.

 

[Fed881981]

Swiatek will move up to #17 in the world from #51!

The WTA without a dominant Serena: The Land of Opportunity!

 

[flyingboris]

The WTA with a dominant Serena: The Land of Opportunity!

Do you mean "dormant"?

 

[chrischris]

Pete Sampras has Greek heritage but he is counted as American where he was born and grew up.

Andre Agassi has Iranian heritage on his Dads side but he was born and raised in Las Vegas.. = American.

 

[Fed881981]

Do you mean "dormant"?

I meant "without"... oops!

 

[THUNDERVOLLEY]

While your point about fluke is so correct, we need to wait and watch. The examples are so wrong. Serena?? Greatest ever in terms of achievement
And Sharapova? 5 slams with a career grand slam.

Better example is Ostapenko. Won unseeded the FO like a superb force, then faded away.

I'm saying Serena and Sharapova did not win their second majors until a couple of years later, so if current players win more--but it comes a few years later, its not necessarily a sign of career disaster.

 

[octobrina10]

Sofia Kenin was born in Moscow, has Russian parents (who moved to the USA a few months after she was born), resides in the USA and plays for it. I don't know why she decided to become a USA citizen. Maria Sharapova, for example, has said she will never give up her Russian nationality to become a USA citizen, although she has lived in the USA since she was seven years old.

 

[Turbo-87]

I am not a fan of Kenin at all. She just strikes me as really strange, just like her dad. She seems to be really hard on herself, which is probably encouraged by her dad. I found myself wondering if she was slapping herself in the mirror during a bathroom break.

 

[Fed881981]

I don't know why she decided to become a USA citizen.

Because this is the United States of America.

 

[Rickenbacker4003]

It is when it hits.
When you don’t catch it, it’s laughable.

My family and myself got it and it is laughable

 

[Rickenbacker4003]

Kerber was born in Germany, plays for Germany, she has Polish parents , speaks Polish and lives in Poland. What do you figure?

Kerber was born in Poland. Raised in Germany

 

[octobrina10]

Because this is the United States of America.

So what ?!

 

[Sysyphus]

Sofia Kenin was born in Moscow, has Russian parents (who moved to the USA a few months after she was born), resides in the USA and plays for it. I don't know why she decided to become a USA citizen. Maria Sharapova, for example, has said she will never give up her Russian nationality to become a USA citizen, although she has lived in the USA since she was seven years old.

what

it's not surprising at all

she moved to the US so early that she will have no conscious memories of ever having lived in Russia. So it's only natural that she feels more connected to the country she grew up in and lived in virtually all her life.

With Sharapova it's less surprising that she kept her original citizenship, seeing as she lived in Russia till she was 7, and will therefore naturally have a much stronger connection to that.

Big difference between moving from a country when you are a couple of months and seven years.

 

[Sudacafan]

My family and myself got it and it is laughable

Others who got it did not laugh out loud.

 

[Sudacafan]

Sofia Kenin was born in Moscow, has Russian parents (who moved to the USA a few months after she was born), resides in the USA and plays for it. I don't know why she decided to become a USA citizen. Maria Sharapova, for example, has said she will never give up her Russian nationality to become a USA citizen, although she has lived in the USA since she was seven years old.

Has she kept her Russian citizenship, or did she have to resign it to become a US citizen?

 

[Josh Lyman]

Really happy for Iva, her game looks like it’ll translate to all surfaces.

Really don’t like Kenin’s game or attitude.

 

[Rickenbacker4003]

Others who got it did not laugh out loud.

99.96% find it laughable

 

[volleyandfun]

Kerber was born in Poland. Raised in Germany

Quoting Wikipedia:
Kerber was born in Bremen to Polish parents[5][6] Sławomir Kerber, from Poznań, and Beata (née Rzeźnik), who is her manager.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

 

[volleyandfun]

Iga has ugly forehand, and she doesn't look very feminine

Definitely not! She is a girl after all.