Renowned coach Brad Gilbert has come under fire over his social media post about Iga Swiatek\u2019s Wimbledon title run following her emphatic win over Amanda Anisimova in the final.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a> started the grass-court Grand Slam as the eighth seed and defeated the unseeded Paolina Kudermetova, Caty McNally and Danielle Collins to reach the fourth round where she took on the 23rd-seeded Clara Tauson.<\/p>\n After beating the Dane in straight sets, she also saw off the 19th seeded Liudmila Samsonova in two sets before getting the better of the unseeded Belinda Bencic 6-2, 6-0 in the semi-final.\u2019<\/p>\n The four-time French Open champion then demolished the 13th-seeded Anisimova 6-0, 6-0<\/a> in the Championship match to become only the first woman in the Open Era to win Wimbledon without dropping a game as she took her Grand Slam tally to six.<\/p>\n The great Steffi Graf was the first to achieve the astonishing feat as she beat Natasha Zvereva by the same scoreline in the 1988 French Open final.<\/p>\n Gilbert, who mentored several big-name players including Andy Roddick, Andy Murray and Coco Gauff, took to X to share a \u201ccrazy\u201d stat about Swiatek\u2019s Wimbledon seven opponents at the All England Club.<\/p>\n \u201cCrazy Iga Pop tourney stat, the highest ranked player she has played this @Wimbledon Samsonova at 19 AA is ranked 12, not sure when last time someone won a slam without facing a top 10 player @tennistweetscom @SharkoTennis @tennistweetscom,\u201d the American wrote.<\/p>\n Not long after that post, he shared his disappointment with the way the final turned out.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a very sad day for tennis on center court @Wimbledon got to feel for AA last time that happened 1988 @rolandgarros final was like 35 mins Graf vs Zverev,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n But Swiatek\u2019s physiotherapist Maciej Ryszczuk hit back at his original comment about the Pole not facing a top-10 player at the 2025 tournament.<\/p>\n \u201c@bgtennisnation it\u2019s so low that even you can feel the bottom. Do your research better. Winning ugly doesn\u2019t mean commenting ugly,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n The 5 most one-sided Wimbledon women\u2019s singles finals: Iga Swiatek sets new record<\/a><\/p>\n What prize money & points did Anisimova, Swiatek, Sabalenka, Gauff, Raducanu win at Wimbledon?<\/a><\/p>\n Ryszczuk, of course, is right as several recent Grand Slam titles have been won with players not facing a top-10 player and it was pointed out that former world No 1 Ashleigh Barty won all three her Grand Slams without facing a top-10 player during the tournament.<\/p>\n Swiatek\u2019s 2022 French Open title run was also won without the Pole facing a top-10 player.<\/p>\n Gilbert decided to pour cold water on the flames by writing: \u201cEveryone take a freaking chill pill it\u2019s twitter oouch on sensitivity.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Brad Gilbert\u2019s \u2018low\u2019 blow after Iga Swiatek\u2019s Wimbledon title run called out by Pole\u2019s physio<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renowned coach Brad Gilbert has come under fire over his social media post about Iga Swiatek\u2019s Wimbledon title run following her emphatic win over Amanda Anisimova in the final. Swiatek started the grass-court Grand Slam as the eighth seed and defeated the unseeded Paolina Kudermetova, Caty McNally and Danielle Collins to reach the fourth round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wimbledon News<\/h2>\n