Her win at Wimbledon reignited Swiatek\u2019s career and now Wilander is predicting the world No 2 will go from strength to strength as she eyes up a challenge to Aryna Sabalenka at the top of the rankings.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think Iga is more positive when it comes to her appearance on the court,\u201d said Wilander, who will be part of the Eurosport broadcast team at the US Open.<\/p>\n US Open 2025 women\u2019s draw: Who will Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Emma Raducanu play?<\/a><\/p>\n Patrick Mouratoglou picks his favourite to win the US Open title \u2013 and three outsiders to follow<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI like the way that she played at Wimbledon to begin with. I think that she played a little less aggressively.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think you have to be super aggressive all the time to win on either the men\u2019s tour or the women\u2019s tour. I think Iga has found her way again.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s, to me, playing a little bit more on the other surface, the way that she plays on clay. She\u2019s using the forehand, and sometimes plays it with a lot of top spin.<\/p>\n \u201cI think she\u2019s taken a step back out of the court. Of course, in Cincinnati, where she won, the courts were playing so fast that you have to be super aggressive.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think Iga, there is less of a chance that she\u2019s going to lose to a lower-ranked player when she has a better attitude.<\/p>\n \u201cI think she understands her game on other surfaces, the way that she understands her own game on a clay court.\u201d<\/p>\n Mats Wilander is part of the Eurosport commentary team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When asked to pick his US Open favourite, Wilander struggled to separate the two biggest names in the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n \u201cNow Iga has started to play unbelievably well again and we know what happens when she plays well,\u201d he said of Swiatek. \u201cShe\u2019s not afraid of dominating the women\u2019s tour, but you cannot count out Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s had some bad luck in the last two Grand Slam finals that she was in, and in the semi-finals against Amanda Anisimova. So, she\u2019s one of the favourites.<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, it\u2019s pretty clear that Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek are the two favourites. They\u2019re not afraid of winning. They\u2019re both playing well enough. I think it doesn\u2019t matter what Sabalenka has done in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if they both come healthy to the US Open, I\u2019m expecting the two of them to go through and reach their seeds, which should be in the finals.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked to pick his dark horse for the title, Wilander admitted he didn\u2019t have to dip too far down the rankings, as he backed world No 3 Coco Gauff to bounce back from indifferent form since her thrilling French Open win in June.<\/p>\n \u201cCoco Gauff knows how to win majors and she proved that by beating Aryna Sabalenka in the French Open final<\/a>, when the conditions were terrible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cAgain, it shows what guts she has, but if Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka play their best tennis, I just don\u2019t see how Coco Gauff can keep up with them.<\/p>\n \u201cBut then again, are they going to be able to play their best tennis against Gauff because she defends so well? It\u2019s actually a compliment to someone like Coco Gauff, that when she plays, she often makes her opponents play worse.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that she has to be careful in the earlier rounds, and the later she survives in the tournament, the more of a threat she becomes.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the US Open on Eurosport and HBO Max<\/em><\/p>\n READ NEXT: Iga Swiatek\u2019s staggering top-10 win feat only bettered by two tennis icons since 1990<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Iga Swiatek\u2019s biggest problem identified by former world No 1 ahead of US Open<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek lost sight of what made her a great champion, with her new attitude on court allowing her to re-establish herself as a force in the sport. 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