"She is not really on a human level" - Wilander believes no player left at the French Open can hurt Swiatek

Eurosport tennis analyst Mats Wilander claims Iga Swiatek is on a different level from the rest of the players left in the Roland Garros draw, and that none of those players have the means to hurt her.

Swiatek is on a remarkable 32-match unbeaten run and has dished out three bagels already in her run to the last eight in Paris. Although she did lose her first set of the tournament to Qinwen Zheng in the fourth round, the Chinese teenager was subsequently afflicted with menstrual cramps during that encounter. This led to Swiatek showing all her experience, as she came back and remained on track in pursuit of her second French Open title.

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"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," said Wilander. "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?’

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“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.

"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.”

The World No.1 is set to face 20th seed Daria Kasatkina for a spot in her second Roland Garros final.