By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday May 28, 2022
Real Madrid won the Champions League title on Saturday night in Paris defeating Liverpool 1-0 for their 14th title.
Rafael Nadal, one of the club's most loyal fans was there to take it in. But not Iga Swiatek. The Pole loves to do things like her idol Nadal – like dominating on the terre battue of Roland-Garros – but when it came to making the decision to go to the game or not, she opted to stay focused on her tennis.
“I was thinking about it,” Swiatek told reporters after her 6-3, 7-5 victory over Danka Kovinich. “I really wanted to go, because I have never actually saw a football match in a good level.”
Swiatek said she didn’t want to mess with her rhythm during the tournament. There’s just too much of a good groove to protect.
“Basically I really wanted, but it was actually possible for me, but I'm not that sure yet if it's going to interfere with my rhythm and the tournament. So I actually talked with my team about it yesterday that maybe in like two, three years, I'm going to be able to go in like some exciting events during and I'm still going to be able to focus,” she said.
“But for now it's still pretty tricky for me, so I decided it's better to keep the routines.”
Swiatek didn't really have a horse in the race, and said she isn't really a massive football fan anyway.
"I don't know honestly who is going to win and I'm not cheering for anybody because I'm not that - I'm not like a football fan," she said. "I'm not watching a lot. I watched Euro 2020 and the previous ones. But Champions League, it's not like I'm following, so I don't really know and I don't want to just shoot at one team because it's a final. They are both pretty good. Part of my team is Real Madrid fans... I mean, I'm honest. Part of my team is Barcelona fans. So I don't know if they want Real to win or not. And I'm split, because usually I would go for what they are cheering for, but if they are split, I'm split as well."