Poland's Iga Swiatek silences doubting Thomases in style

FOLLOWING HER 6-0, 6-0 beatdown over Amanda Anisimova in the Wimbledon final on Saturday, Iga Swiatek picked up the microphone and spoke glowingly about how winning the biggest prize in tennis, on the grass courts that were meant to be her weakness, was something she could not have even dreamt of, "it was just way too far."

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Later, while addressing the media, she would bare her fangs, hitting out at those who doubted her. "For the past months, how the media sometimes described me — and I got to say, unfortunately, the Polish media — how they treated me and my team, it wasn't really pleasant," she said in the press conference.

"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. 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, my own life and my own career. So hopefully I am going to have the freedom from them as well to let me do my job the way I want it," she would add.