"I do feel nervous" - Swiatek after yet another win at Roland Garros

Iga Swiatek sealed the 33rd in a row win by beating Jessica Pegula 6-3 6-2 to progress to the semi-final of the French Open, where she will face Daria Kasatkina.

Swiatek lost her first set of the tournament in the previous round against Qinwen Zheng, and was out of sorts at times against Pegula - hitting 30 winners but 28 unforced errors in a match that ran to one hour and 31 minutes. She did admit after the match that she felt nervous:

“Oh yeah I do [feel nervous]. I think when I stop feeling nervous something weird is going on. The thing is sometimes stress is an important thing that is going to make you more active and more tense. So you can really play your best performance. I tried to use it that way.”

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She wil heavily favoured to get the job done and Mats Wilander agrees commenting:

"She is on a different level I think. I don’t know if there is a player left that can hurt her and I don’t think she is going to hurt herself in this tournament. She looks very, very stable.”

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