What Is the Iga Swiatek Bakery? Everything You Need to Know About the Quirky WTA Phrase

Iga Swiatek perfectly fits in her professional role as a tennis player. But she has her own style of getting things done. Profoundly, the whole tennis world is aware of this, and they call it the ‘Iga Swiatek bakery.’ Even when Jessica Pegula signed off from the WTA Finals, she also handled some bagels and breadsticks from the bakery.

The main query, though, is: What exactly is Iga Swiatek Bakery? What is the background to this peculiar WTA expression, which is used a lot whenever the Pole makes a victory claim on the court? Let’s take a look at how the four-time Grand Slam champion’s ‘bagel and breadstick’ tennis dominance, somewhere down the line, created chaos in the tennis world.

What does the Iga Swiatek bakery stand for?

It was last year’s French Open when the ‘Iga Bakery’ came to light. During her French Open run and US Open run last year, the phrase was born looking at the dominating power she had carried through both tournaments. According to the New York Post, it all started when fans started observing a pattern in her victories.

Her most frequent set is about 6-0, which is bagels, and 6-1, which means breadsticks. Since last year, everybody in the tennis world has been keeping an eye on the way the world number one grabs victory. As the new name gained prominence, whenever she wims without dropping a game, the Iga Bakery phrase gets all over the Internet.

The Iga Bakery is pretty famous. Not only tennis fans but even the opponents of Swiatek start talking about the bakery. Along with that, with the growing time, everyone started using this phrase even more often, while giving the winning style a name of their own. However, why is the bakery tag so popular in the tennis world?

Iga Swiatek Bakery holds significant popularity

Even though there is no such thing as Iga’s bakery, yes, you heard it right. In reality, she doesn’t have a bakery, but with her on-court tennis skills, she takes her opponents through one. The recent tennis player to take a one-way street to the bakery is Jessica Pegula, who made her exit from the tournament after going through Iga’s bakery.

Subsequently, the 29-year-old American tennis player also made a humorous remark at her own expense after suffering a 6-1, 6-0 loss. After the year-end tournament, she took to her Instagram to share a humorous take on ending the 2023 tennis season with the bakery. She wrote, “Ended the year through the bakery factory, lol. Jokes aside. 2023 in the books.”

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While everybody around the tennis circuit is quite familiar with this term, the four-time Grand Slam champion herself is not quite happy with her namesake phenomenon. A few months back, when a meme regarding the bakery started doing rounds on the Internet, the $25 million-worth tennis player shared her stubborn take on not going along with the given tag.

Iga Swiatek against her witty namesake phenomenon

Earlier this year, inspired by her dominance on the court, a bakery Twitter meme went viral on social media. It was one of the trending topics during the French Open, and Iga Swiatek was not happy with the turn of events. During the tournament, in a post-match press conference, she highlighted how it can be a little disrespectful for her opponents.

Swiatek stated, “Look, I don’t want to really talk about that. I really get why people do that because it’s fun, and tennis is entertainment and everything. But from the players’ point of view, I want to be respectful to my opponents. You don’t see the stuff that is behind the scenes.” She also highlighted how she doesn’t want to talk about the bakery.

But even after not liking the bakery phase, Swiatek’s namesake phenomenon is one of the trending topics in the tennis world. Nevertheless, what are your thoughts on the bakery concept? Post your comments in the space provided below.

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