Emma Raducanu has won her first match at the Miami Open and now she has a chance to achieve one of her big targets for 2025 if she wins her next two matches.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a> put her poor form of recent weeks behind her as she stormed into the second round of the Miami Open with a dominant 6-2, 6-1 victory over Sayaka Ishii.<\/p>\n This may not have been a big test for Raducanu against a player could not not handle her power and struggled in every service game as she ended up being broken five times.<\/p>\n Raducanu will take confidence from only her fourth win in her tenth match of what has been a stop-start season, with her rankings slide averted for now.<\/p>\n The 2021 US Open champion slipped down to No 60 in the WTA Rankings after her first round exit against Moyuka Uchijima in Indian Wells earlier this month.<\/p>\n Her performance in that match against Uchijima was laced with errors, as she struggled to deal with windy conditions, but this was a much more comfortable environment for Raducanu to get a morale-boosting win on her record.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very pleased to have got through that, it\u2019s not easy to play someone in the first round who\u2019s younger, dangerous and in good form,\u201d Raducanu told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really proud of how I competed today, it hasn\u2019t been easy for me coming into this but I think I put out a really good performance.\u201d<\/p>\n After failing to play at the Miami Open last year due to injury, this win against Ishii ensured Raducanu made a leap up the rankings and she is now closing in on a return to the top 50.<\/p>\n Raducuanu climbed into the top 10 of the WTA Rankings in 2022, but sustaining that level of success has proved to be tough for the 22-year-old due to dips in form and a succession of injuries.<\/p>\n Now she appears to be injury-free and that will give her confidence of putting up a strong showing against No 8 seed Emma Navarro in the next round.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s got to be happy with that,\u201d declared former British No 1 Annabel Croft, as she assessed Raducanu\u2019s first win at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you consider how few matches she has won on the WTA Tour in 2025, it\u2019s all about getting some building blocks in place and building some confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cShe needs to go and start playing withs some freedom and she wasn\u2019t given much of a test today.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to really judge where he level was at. She got a lot of balls in play, I loved the way she was throwing in the sliced backhands and she served really well against someone who was really inexperienced at this level.<\/p>\n \u201cAny win always feels good and we know the next match will be a real test. She is up against Navarro and there will be no pressure on her against a top 10 player.\u201d<\/p>\n Why Emma Raducanu\u2019s return to Instagram was always inevitable<\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu: How much money has she earned and what comes next?<\/a><\/p>\n With limited ranking points to defend from the 2024 clay court season, Raducanu has a big chance to rise up the WTA Rankings over the next couple of months.<\/p>\n A bulk of the points current on her WTA Ranking came from her good runs in front of her home British fans on the grass in June and July last year.<\/p>\n So she will want to have built up plenty of points in Miami and on clay courts before the grass court season rolls around.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Miami Open WTA Predictions: Gauff & Swiatek respond, Raducanu struggles, Andreeva & Sabalenka look ahead<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu close to rankings breakthrough after milestone Miami Open win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu has won her first match at the Miami Open and now she has a chance to achieve one of her big targets for 2025 if she wins her next two matches. 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