Iga Swiatek: Mats Wilander doubts whether there is a player left in the French Open that can hurt Polish star

Updated 01/06/2022 at 15:25 GMT

Iga Swiatek is "on a different level" to the rest of the players left in the French Open, according to Eurosport's Mats Wilander. Swiatek was in trouble at a set down in her quarter-final match against Qinwen Zheng, but has been untroubled apart from that during this year's Roland-Garros, and Wilander reckons the title can be hers for the taking.

‘She is on a different level’ – Wilander says no one ‘can hurt’ Swiatek

Iga Swiatek is on a different level to the rest of the field left in the French Open, believes Eurosport's Mats Wilander.

World No. 1 Swiatek - who turned 21 on Tuesday - is on a remarkable 32-match unbeaten run and has dished out three bagels already in her run to the last eight in Paris.

She did lose her first set of the tournament to Qinwen Zheng in the fourth round and though the Chinese teenager was afflicted with menstrual cramps during that encounter, Swiatek showed all her experience to come back and keep on track for her second Roland-Garros title.

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Wilander, speaking ahead of Swiatek's quarter-final with American 11th-seed Jessica Pegula, said: “I think it [the Pole's battle against Zheng] shows she is still human and it shows that the level of the women’s game is incredibly high.

"The depth is unbelievable and any woman in the draw can come out and play great tennis.

"But where I think that she [Swiatek] showed she is not really on a human level is the way that she came back.

"She went off the court and she took her little notebook, she started singing a different song in her head, is what she told me afterwards, I was like ‘what?’

“She often sings a different song when she is playing and she changed the song after the first set and then of course she won [the final two sets] 6-0 6-2.

"So she is on a different level I think.