{"id":17438,"date":"2022-07-01T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230846"},"modified":"2022-07-01T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:04:33","slug":"i-texted-her-a-couple-of-times-rafael-nadal-on-iga-swiateks-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/i-texted-her-a-couple-of-times-rafael-nadal-on-iga-swiateks-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"I texted her a couple of times: Rafael Nadal on Iga Swiatek\u2019s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek both are currently in London England, the United Kingdom for the third Grand Slam and have successfully reached the third round of the Wimbledon Championships 2022 in men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories respectively. Both have been going through a very decent season so far where the Polish professional won five WTA titles and a Grand Slam in Paris, France and Nadal on the other hand has won both the majors of the year, in Australia and the Roland Garros for the record-extending 14th time.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal is so impressed with Swiatek\u2019s stunning run this season and not just him, the 21-year-old has made everyone her fan that she is one of the top-heavy favourites to win another major in England. The 22 times Grand Slam champion said that he has texted the WTA World No. 1 several time regarding her stunning form. \u201cI texted her a couple of times because it\u2019s unbelievable the way that she is playing,\u201d said Nadal on Swiatek as reported by tennis journalist Luigi Gatto. He further said, \u201cShe is so powerful and moves really well. It\u2019s very difficult to stop her right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nadal will face Lorenzo Sonego and the WTA No. 1 player Swiatek will lock horns with Alize Cornet tomorrow for their third-round clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two have successfully reached the third round at the Wimbledon Championships 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,688,1455,336,1963,250,3322],"class_list":["post-17438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-french-open","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roland-garros","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-2022"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}