Iga Swiatek of Poland continues to dominate the women’s tennis circuit as she won another title on the WTA circuit at Stuttgart. On top of that, the WTA world number one is on a reading binge. Along with dominating opponents on the tennis court, she enjoys reading biographies and has a reading club that she formed a few months ago.

After her dominating performance at the Stuttgart Open, she recently shared her experience reading a biography. It was the biography of one of the stars of the renowned sitcoms, ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S.’. After binge reading it, the Pole called attention to a tennis-related error.

Iga Swiatek highlighted a tennis-related error in Matthew Perry’s biography 

The 21-year-old bookworm appeared on the WTA Insider podcast after winning another WTA championship. In that podcast interview, the tennis star discussed her recent success as well as her preparations for the forthcoming competitions.

However, while discussing her preparations, the show’s host asked questions about the tennis player’s biography reading spree. To which the three-time Grand Slam champion responded with a candid confession about a Polish translation error regarding the tennis legend, Chris Evert, in ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S.’ star Matthew Perry’s biography.

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She highlighted that the translator, who translated the original version to Polish, made a gender error regarding the 18-time Grand Slam champion, Chris Evert. It made her laugh out loud. In between that, for a second, she confused Leonardo DiCaprio with Leonardo da Vinci.

She said, “I just finished Matthew Perry’s biography yesterday, he was weird. In Polish, actually translation their was Chris Evert’s academy. I don’t know, the guy who translated it thought Chris Evert is a guy. So, I was laughing, but whatever. Right now I want to try biographies, so I will read about Leonardo DiCaprio, Oh my god, and Leonardo da Vinci next.”

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However, this is not the first time the top-ranked tennis player in the world has blatantly erred or publicly disclosed something regarding one of her books. Last year, she also shared a very honest reaction to the book ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the 2022 Indian Wells Masters.

Swiatek’s honest reaction to reading ‘The Great Gatsby,’ 

The tennis star, 21, loves to read, and she finished the fantastic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald last year. She expressed her viewpoint, stating that the book was rather brief in her opinion. It was short enough for her to finish the book in only two days.

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The Polish tennis player was considerably taken aback when she discovered that the classic novel was much shorter than she had anticipated. She added that reading short novels is not her favorite hobby because she is more accustomed to reading big novels.