IgA Swiatek broke the silence about his doping case: “I was crying for two weeks”

Many months passed from the announcement that shook the world of tennis and put IGA Swiatek In the eye of the storm. At the end of November 2024, the Polaca was suspended for 30 days, by positive in an anti -doping control. After that scandal, the former world number one had only referred to the case on one occasion (December 2024). But now he broke the silence and opened thoroughly with Andy Roddick in a moving interview.

“I was crying for two weeks. I couldn’t practice, I couldn’t go to the court … I felt I was losing my integrity. I felt that nobody was going to believe that I did nothing bad and felt that the whole world was going to turn my back and was over. And that every achievement I had would suddenly disappear, “said the last Wimbledon champion, who defeated Ampanda Anisimova in the final.

In this regard, Swiatek He also expressed the support he received from his psychologist: “Without a doubt, that Daria knew me so well helped me at that time and months later, when I was already on the court. I had many different ideas especially this process. She helped me find logic, although it was very difficult.”