NEW YORK – Six-times main winner Iga Swiatek bought one more reason to cheer after her US Open first-round win on Tuesday, because the avowed “Swiftie” lifted her cellphone to find her pop idol Taylor Swift met her match.
The music mega-star announced she was engaged to NFL tight end Travis Kelce on Tuesday, after years of well-publicised heartache that proved golden materials for her array of platinum data.
The Polish participant Swiatek stated she noticed the information as quickly as Swift posted it and walked into her press convention texting associates to unfold the phrase.
“She posted once I completed,” stated Swiatek. “Possibly that is not a coincidence.”
Swift and Kelce, whose announcement earned greater than 18 million Instagram likes, headlined the A-listers within the crowd on the males’s remaining final 12 months, the place Jannik Sinner ensured a “merciless summer time” for one more Taylor – Fritz – in a three-set defeat.
Their enduring attraction throughout Flushing Meadows was clear as broadcaster and retired participant Mary Carillo interrupted her commentary of world primary Sinner’s first spherical match to announce the information: “Taylor Swift is engaged!”
Her baffled co-anchor, the retired four-time main winner Jim Courier, responded dryly: “With, like, a brand new report?”
When the Tayvis engagement information breaks in the midst of Jannik Sinner’s match ???? pic.twitter.com/kIG0uFlbj2
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The phrase unfold across the sun-drenched plaza to the ESPN desk, the place reporters grilled the 2022 champion Swiatek for her response, following her round-one win over Colombia’s Emiliana Arango.
The second-ranked Swiatek then spent almost half her post-match press convention fielding questions on the celeb information.
“Nicely, I am simply pleased for her, as a result of she deserves one of the best,” stated Swiatek. “Clearly she had a whole lot of boyfriends, so we all know all about that. So hopefully this one will, you realize, stick perpetually. Travis looks as if an excellent man.”
Requested if she would discipline a “non-Taylor query,” Swiatek deadpanned: “No.”
—Reuters
