Iga Swiatek has made it clear that to deal with the 11-month calendar- about which she has time and again complained- she will be skipping mandatory tournaments. The Pole is in Riyadh for the WTA Finals and has breezed past reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys in her first round robin match.

At the press conference later, the six-time Grand Slam champion revealed her plans to handle the demanding schedule. At present, the WTA players have to sign up for four Grand Slam events and 10 mandatory WTA 1000s.

I won’t be looking next year at which tournaments are mandatory and which ones I could get fined for. Iga Swiatek said

Swiatek featured in three WTA 500 events in Stuttgart, Bad Homburg, and Seoul. She was fined for missing three more such events, given that it’s mandatory

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