Emma Raducanu proclaimed that her battling three-set opening round victory at the 2025 Italian Open gives her \u201ca lot of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The world No 49 defeated 78th-ranked qualifier Maya Joint 7-5, 6-7(1), 6-3 in the opening round at the Foro Italico.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a>\u00a0recovered from 4-2 down to win the opening set, but she lost the second set on a tiebreak after serving for the match at 5-4.<\/p>\n In the deciding set, Raducanu responded strongly as she surged into a 5-0 lead, and she staved off another fightback from Joint to prevail after two hours and 44 minutes.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old was playing just her second match at the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome after a first round defeat in 2022. She missed the event through injury in 2023 and chose to skip it last year.<\/p>\n Raducanu was impressed by Joint and predicted that her 19-year-old Australian opponent will climb the rankings quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a really hard battle. Maya played an amazing match and such a high level. And I think I did as well,\u201d the Brit said.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu closes in on big rankings milestone after a battling win in Rome<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s agreement with Mark Petchey not a long-term solution, warns former British No 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think that the overall level of the match was really high and she\u2019s flown up the rankings. I mean, playing like this, I think she\u2019s gonna go up really fast, really quick. I\u2019m really proud of myself as well, because that was a great performance, I think, on all fronts.<\/p>\n \u201cIt gives me a lot of confidence because it\u2019s not just clay \u2013 it\u2019s at night, it\u2019s heavy. I think with the new balls, it was still flying, but the balls got old pretty quickly and it was very cold.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m really proud. I take a lot of confidence from this win, not just because I won, but I think the level in general was really high, and I think I was committing to my shots, which is what I said I wanted to do, and I was really going for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jane O\u2019Donoghue was the lone coaching presence in Raducanu\u2019s box as Mark Petchey was preoccupied with his commentary role for American broadcaster Tennis Channel.<\/p>\n \u201cPetch, I think was on comms of my match, so I hope he was nice to me (laughs),\u201d\u00a0the 2021 US Open champion said.<\/p>\n Raducanu will face 21st seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the second round in Rome. She holds a 1-1 record against the 30-year-old Russian.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Alex Eala +6 in WTA Rankings after suffering heavy loss on Italian Open debut<\/a> The post Emma Raducanu gives verdict on tough Italian Open win as she reacts to Mark Petchey absence<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu proclaimed that her battling three-set opening round victory at the 2025 Italian Open gives her \u201ca lot of confidence.\u201d The world No 49 defeated 78th-ranked qualifier Maya Joint 7-5, 6-7(1), 6-3 in the opening round at the Foro Italico. Raducanu\u00a0recovered from 4-2 down to win the opening set, but she lost the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h2>\n
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