Emma Raducanu

EMMA RADUCANU put her Billie Jean King Cup blister woes aside to sweep into the Stuttgart second round - and she is loving getting to play on clay.The.

But Raducanu, a whopping 185 places above Sanders in the rankings, was in no mood to let her opponent off the hook. It was a similar story in the second after Raducanu's speed across the court allowed her to reach a Sanders drop shot and execute on her third break point. The 19-year-old Bromley ace took a little while to find her rhythm as she was taken to deuce on her first two service games.

The 19-year-old US Open champion was making her WTA tour clay-court debut.

To have come this far in the space of a week I am very happy. Last week I was being taught how to slide on the clay using a medicine ball. Raducanu said: “It’s been a good start for me to the clay season, today being my first WTA match on clay.

Emma Raducanu had little trouble overcoming Storm Sanders in her first-ever clay-court match in a WTA tour event, dropping just three games en route to the ...

The second set was similarly straightforward for Raducanu as she went a break up in the opening service game before going a double break in the fifth game. Raducanu secured breaks in the fourth and sixth games of the opening set and was dominant on her serve, landing 83 per cent of her first serves. WTA Stuttgart

US Open champion Emma Raducanu eased past Storm Sanders 6-1, 6-2 Wednesday in the first round of the Stuttgart Open.

Pliskova next faces Russia's Liudmila Samsonova in the second round. The eighth-seeded Raducanu next faces Germany's Tamara Korpatsch for the chance to play top-ranked Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinals. STUTTGART, Germany -- US Open champion Emma Raducanu eased past Australia's Storm Sanders 6-1, 6-2 Wednesday in the first round of the Stuttgart Open.

Emma Raducanu marked her WTA clay-court debut in style as she cruised to a straight-sets win over Storm Sanders in Stuttgart.

Last week I was being taught how to slide on the clay using a medicine ball. Raducanu said: “It’s been a good start for me to the clay season, today being my first WTA match on clay. Sanders also won her first service game to love, but it was one-way traffic from that point as Raducanu’s power from the baseline told.

The 19-year-old US Open champion was making her WTA tour clay-court debut.

To have come this far in the space of a week I am very happy. Last week I was being taught how to slide on the clay using a medicine ball. Raducanu said: “It’s been a good start for me to the clay season, today being my first WTA match on clay.

Emma Raducanu enjoyed one of her most comfortable wins yet on the WTA Tour, as her made an impressive start to her campaign at the Porsche Grand Prix in ...

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Emma Raducanu has admitted she didn't know how to move on a clay court as little as a week ago as she now finds herself within one match of a showdown with ...

For now, the Brit is keen to keep improving on the surface and admitted it could one day become her favourite. Opening up on her rapid improvement on the dirt, the 19-year-old confessed: “This time last week I was practising in Prague and I genuinely didn’t know how to move. “Getting the win in straight sets meant a lot because my recent matches have been very long three battles,” she said.

US Open champion Raducanu saw off Australian qualifier Sanders 6-1, 6-2 as she marked her WTA Tour clay-court debut in style. The 19-year-old, seeded eighth in ...

Last week I was being taught how to slide on the clay using a medicine ball. Raducanu said: 'It's been a good start for me to the clay season, today being my first WTA match on clay. That is an improvement from me.

Her Billie Jean King Cup clashes were her first taste on clay at top level tennis and on Wednesday she won her first WTA Tour match on the service, beating ...

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Raducanu thrashed Australia's Storm Sanders, while Swiatek eased past Germany's Eva Lys in straight sets.

Last week I was being taught how to slide on clay using a medicine ball,” she stressed. And in Prague last week, she suffered the same problem on her right foot –– later revealing she was bathing her feet in surgical spirit every day to try and overcome the problem. At the Australian Open, the teenager suffered blisters on her right hand against Danka Kovinic and eventually succumbed to a three-set defeat.

Emma Raducanu has officially transitioned from unknown teen tennis face to the game of life. Every action, on and off the court, is there to be shot at.

It’s whether she can be uninhibited and use the crowd to her advantage. Self-justification isn’t a battle to be won with the media. Raducanu has failed to put together a series of wins that would at least point to empirical progress. Rather than shout: “I’ve been on the practice court for six hours,” Raducanu would be well advised to just let these things wash over her. British sensation is suddenly invited to all sorts of events and sponsorships. Now, opponents and coaches will be all over the stats to see where they can reduce the Brit’s effectiveness. Time will tell if she can implement different plans to change it up. Boris Becker has said her “honeymoon phase is over”. However, Chris Evert is pretty much on the button with how the teenager has handled things so far: “I just think with the tabloids in England it’s brutal. It seems almost basic in the face of so much scrutiny, but one of the most disarming weapons Emma Raducanu possesses is her way of smiling through the crises. I don’t think that’s any secret and she’s working on it,” said captain Anne Keothavong. The 6-1, 6-1 loss to 2019 French Open runner-up Marketa Vondrousova was exacerbated by foot blisters hampering her movement. Emma Raducanu has officially transitioned from unknown teen tennis face to the game of life. Losing toenails is never a pleasant experience but that’s exactly what happened as Raducanu prepared for her first competitive match on clay in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers.