"Her worst match but she still won" - Wilander on Swiatek barely beating Kovinic at Roland Garros

Mats Wilander was impressed that Iga Swiatek still won despite playing her worst match in a very long time against Danka Kovinic at Roland Garros.

The encounter wasn’t as easy sailing as her previous two, and according to Wilander, the anxiousness was evident in Swiatek when she was doing press after the game. He explained how what he saw in Swiatek while interviewing her after the match:

“I feel, now that I’m doing interviews on court, you get really close to the player and you can feel this energy that is sometimes very positive, sometimes very relaxed, [and] sometimes a little bit anxious.With Iga today in the match, it looked like she was a little bit anxious, and then in that interview, I could feel that she’s saying ‘Mats, let me get out of here because I want to go to the Bois De Boulogne, and I need to go so can you please stop asking me any more questions'. Do you know what I mean? 6-3 4-1 and then something happened. [It was] maybe her worst match here, but she still won in two sets.”

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