Emma Raducanu produced an impressive performance against Jil Teichmann to reach the third round of the Rome Masters.<\/p>\n
The Brit was due to face world No 22 Ekaterina Alexandrova, but the Russian was forced to withdraw just hours before their scheduled meeting due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, it was pretty mental,\u201d Raducanu<\/a> said during her post-match interview.<\/p>\n \u201cI was warming up for my match against Alexandrova, practising with Mirra [Andreeva], and all of a sudden I get told I\u2019m playing Jil and then, on top of that. She\u2019s a lefty. So it\u2019s a completely different challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cI honestly haven\u2019t practised with a lefty; I haven\u2019t played one since [Marketa] Vondrousova in February in Abu Dhabi. So it was a challenge. First few games I was adjusting to the way the ball curls, but I\u2019m really proud of myself, how I fought through.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the switch, the Brit looked in solid form during the match, winning an impressive 73% of her first-serve points and 65% of her second-serve points \u2013 partly aided by a slight change in her service motion, brought on by team member Mark Petchey.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at my serve now compared to Australia, compared to the Middle East, even Miami, I changed after Miami with some tweaks and it\u2019s a completely different motion, trying to make it a bit more fluid, a bit longer so it\u2019s hopefully more robust under pressure, but it\u2019s by no means a finished product,\u201d analysed Raducanu.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel there\u2019s so much more room to grow it. I think this way, I can maximise the potential.\u201d<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu wins humorous WTA award \u2013 \u2018Oops!\u2026 she did it again!\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Coco Gauff and Alex Eala in exciting doubles partnership<\/a><\/p>\n Currently ranked as the world No 45 in the WTA live rankings, Raducanu has an outside chance of being seeded at the French Open \u2013 needing to be inside the world\u2019s top 32, if there are no withdrawals.<\/p>\n \u201cI still don\u2019t really feel comfortable on clay but in a way it helps me, because I have to be super focused on every single point, just get my feet right and try and not fall over, so it is a big challenge,\u201d said the one-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n \u201cThe points are long, the balls do get heavier, and when I was serving it out, it was getting slower and slower, so it is physical but I\u2019m slowly finding my feet.\u201d<\/p>\n Her win also allows Raducanu to spend longer in the Italian capital, something which she has sought to maximise with some sightseeing.<\/p>\n \u201cI tried to come to site pretty late,\u201d the Brit stated.<\/p>\n \u201cI actually managed to go to the Trevi Fountain but I didn\u2019t make a wish though, the queue was too long and I didn\u2019t have a coin!<\/p>\n \u201cIt was nice to kind of see the sights and then I had a nice lunch outside on a terrace somewhere on the street, it was pretty chill.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2021 US Open<\/a> champion will next play Veronika Kudermetova in the third round of the Rome Masters.<\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu comes through \u2018mental\u2019 second-round match after last-minute switch<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu produced an impressive performance against Jil Teichmann to reach the third round of the Rome Masters. The Brit was due to face world No 22 Ekaterina Alexandrova, but the Russian was forced to withdraw just hours before their scheduled meeting due to a shoulder injury. \u201cTo be honest, it was pretty mental,\u201d Raducanu […]<\/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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Latest WTA News<\/h3>\n