Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce engagement hits Iga Swiatek US Open press conference

NEW YORK—Iga Swiatek is officially living the life of a showgirl at the 2025 US Open, treating the media to a razzle-dazzle press conference mostly to do with the breaking news that Taylor Swift had gotten engaged to longtime boyfriend Travis Kelce.

“I'm just happy for her, because she deserves the best,” said Swiatek, pausing to chide a laughing journalist. “What's the laugh? She does!

“Obviously, she had a lot of boyfriends, so we know all about that. So hopefully this one will, you know, stick forever. Travis seems like a great guy. She seems super happy, so I'm happy for her. I wish them all the best, yeah.”

The reigning Wimbledon champion and the Hologic WTA tour’s most vocal Swiftie saw the news minutes after her first-round victory over Emiliana Arango on Tuesday, and safe to say she was prepared to talk about it.

“She posted when I finished,” Swiatek mused. “Yeah, maybe that's not a coincidence. I don't know!”

Fresh off a title run at the Cincinnati Open, Swiatek has been a Swift enthusiast for well over a decade, becoming a full-blown fan during the Grammy Award-winning artist’s folklore. and evemore. eras in 2020.

“I just followed everything,” confessed the former world No. 1, who saw Swift’s Eras Tour in 2024. “You know, I was following her, but also some, like, fan pages to see, like, the updates.

The 2022 US Open champion tuned into Swift and Kelce’s New Heights podcast earlier this summer, eager to learn all she could about Swift’s forthcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl.

“I saw, for example, when she was, like, ‘Oh, this is going to be an album of 12 songs, that's it, no more,’ I was, like, Girl…” teased Swiatek, whose favorite albums clock in at 17 tracks each.

“So, then people said that there might be like a 13th song, and it was a '90s trend to do that, to do a track at the end.

“I knew most of the stuff already, but it's nice that she explained a lot to people that were football fans and were listening to the podcast because the football. I think she's just great that she can fit everywhere, and I hope people love it obviously. There has been some, you know, hate as well because she was on football matches and she got booed and everything. I don't get it, because she just makes our world better.”

Speaking of the 90s, Swiatek plans to pick up her copy of the album in person, eschewing the new trend of collecting the multiple variants that have become available for pre-order.

“For sure I want to have the original, the first one,” smiled Swiatek.

Efforts to pivot the press conference away from Swift were met with reluctance from Swiatek, who gave a playful “No,” when an attempt at non-Swift question was made.

Should Swiatek reach a second US Open final, perhaps Swift makes a second trip to Flushing Meadows—making one the Pole’s “wildest dream” come true.