Iga Swiatek hopes dominant Wimbledon final performance silences critics

Swiatek has come under fire in the last year after she failed a doping test in a case where she was an unfortunate victim of a contaminated sleeping drug.

Her relationship with psychologist Daria Abramowicz has also been the subject of intense scrutiny and she has hit out at the Polish media on several occasions for their coverage of her story.

Now she has picked her moment to suggest she deserves more respect, as she insisted some of the stories written about her are not fair.

"We as public people and as athletes, we can't really react to everything what's going on," said Swiatek.

"We've got to focus on ourselves. Obviously, sometimes it's easier to do that, sometimes it's harder. For sure, the past months, how the media sometimes describe me - and I've got to say, unfortunately, Polish media, how they treated me and my team, it wasn't really pleasant.

"I hope they will just leave me alone and let me do my job because obviously you can see that we know what we are doing, and I have the best people around me.

"I have already proved a lot. I know people want more and more, but it's my own process and my own life and my own career."

When asked whether she was shocked to win her first Wimbledon final in such convincing fashion, Swiatek offered up a blunt response.

"Well, 'shocked' would be too big of a word. For sure I was surprised with the consistency," she added.

"I knew I can do it before, but I don't think I ever served so well throughout the whole three weeks even. Bod Hamburg was also a good tournament in terms of that. It was always kind of more up and down.

" Yeah, I was just going, like, using the good feeling that I had on the court. For sure it felt great. I know in my mind I can be focused. I'm not going to waste points and let them go for free. So this I knew. But for sure my level of tennis helped me to keep that on a constant level.

"I think tennis is a mental sport, but also you need everything to win tournaments, like good tennis, good physicality, being also not tired, have good matches before so you don't spend too much time on the court, having great focus. Obviously, the finals are sometimes, when I watched other players playing, I could see the difference in the level.

"Finals sometimes are a bit ugly because there's so much stress and everything. I kind of used the experience from before. Today I just wanted to enjoy the time that I had on the Centre Court and enjoy the last hours of me playing well on grass 'cause who knows if it's going to happen again (smiling).

"I just focused on that and I really had fun. Obviously I was stressed, as anybody would be. But I wanted to just do my job, and that's it."

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