Sabalenka on her new friendship with Swiatek: "It's become cool between us".
Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek recently shared images of themselves training together, a rather unprecedented situation between the world No.1 and No.2 players on the WTA Tour.
Despite their rivalry resuming at the Australian Open, Sabalenka admitted, before starting her season in Brisbane, that they had developed a certain level of complicity: "It all started at the WTA Finals. I asked her if she wanted to do a TikTok.
I thought 'Okay, whatever, I'll ask her and see what happens.' I told myself that we had to stay together on the court, have fun and enjoy our rivalry without getting into each other's heads, not to be too hard on each other.
So I asked her and we did it. Since then, we've trained together several times.
In Abu Dhabi, I did a fitness session after our match. She said 'Can I join you? I said 'Yes, let's do it'. We filmed it and posted it on our social networks.
It became cool between us. I have to say he's a very nice person. It was nice to get to know each other."
