Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek says tennis didn’t want the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ between Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka as the ladies’s sport “stands by itself”.

Ladies’s primary Sabalenka and male participant Kyrgios confronted off in a extremely publicised exhibition in Dubai every week in the past.

Kyrgios gained the match – performed on a modified court docket designed to supply a degree taking part in discipline – in straight units.

However Swiatek says tennis has come a good distance because the authentic ‘Battle of the Sexes’ between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973 which highlighted the ladies’s sport combating for legitimacy and prize cash.

“I have not watched [Sabalenka v Kyrgios] as a result of I do not watch stuff like that,” the world quantity two stated.

“I believe for certain it attracted a whole lot of consideration. It was leisure, however I would not say that had something to do with social change or any vital subjects.

“I believe the identify was simply the identical because the one from the Billie Jean King match in ’73. That is it. There have been no extra similarities as a result of I really feel like ladies’s tennis stands by itself proper now.

“We now have so many nice athletes and nice tales to current, we do not essentially want to check to males’s tennis.

“Actually, there would not must be any competitors.”

Swiatek stated the mixed-team United Cup – which obtained underneath manner in Australia on Friday – is a greater strategy to have a good time males’s and ladies’s tennis.

Ties on the United Cup comprise of 1 males’s and one ladies’s singles match and a combined doubles.

“Occasions like this one, United Cup, brings tennis collectively, and WTA followers and ATP followers can watch this occasion with a lot pleasure,” she stated.

“Seeing additionally singles gamers that normally haven’t got house to play combined doubles collectively, taking part in these type of matches, I believe that is truly what makes our sport rather more attention-grabbing and higher.”

Emma Raducanu and Billy Harris are representing Nice Britain on the match and play their first sport in opposition to Japan in Perth on Sunday.