Emma Raducanu continued her impressive run at the 2025 Italian Open with a comeback win against Veronika Kudermetova\u00a0in the third round.<\/p>\n
The 2021 US Open champion claimed a 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 victory over 50th-ranked Kudermetova after two hours and 32 minutes\u00a0on the\u00a0Super Tennis Arena in Rome.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a> lost a strongly contested opening set after she was unable to serve it out at 5-4.<\/p>\n The world No 49 responded by steamrolling her 28-year-old Russian opponent in both the second and third sets to seal a resounding win.<\/p>\n Former British No 1 Annabel Croft\u00a0assessed that Raducanu had\u00a0\u201cpsychologically dismantled\u201d Kudermetova while commentating on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n Speaking to Sky Sports, Raducanu said: \u201cThe most pleasing part of today was recovering after losing the first set having served for it.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I threw in a pretty poor game at 5-4 serving but I felt under pressure on Veronika\u2019s returns \u2013 she was literally red-lining everything and it was all going in. I didn\u2019t know where to serve and it\u2019s not a nice feeling to have.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so happy with the way I didn\u2019t let the rest of the match get away. With me, that\u2019s big progress because of some of the matches I played in the past.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu has rediscovered a key part of her personality that made her special<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s \u2018crucial\u2019 improvement on clay revealed by former Wimbledon winner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy with the variety that I have with my shots. I was able to return from two different positions up and back, which is new, and I think I adopted the back in the last two matches and it\u2019s helped me just get into the point and put me into a better position on the fourth ball, but I still think I can be better out of the corners.\u201d<\/p>\n The Brit is making just her second Italian Open appearance after losing her only previous match at the event in 2022.<\/p>\n Raducanu has climbed seven places to world No 42 in the Live WTA Rankings with the 120 points she has gained from her three victories in the Italian capital. She reached a career-high ranking of world No 10 in July 2022.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old has set up an intriguing last 16 showdown with world No 3 Coco Gauff<\/a> at the WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n Gauff won the pair\u2019s only previous meeting in the second round of the 2023 Australian Open.\u00a0The 21-year-old American downed 32nd seed Magda Linette 7-5, 6-3 in her third round match in Rome.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Emma Raducanu wins humorous WTA award \u2013 \u2018Oops!\u2026 she did it again!\u2019<\/a> The post Emma Raducanu clinches rankings breakthrough at Italian Open as she sets up Coco Gauff showdown<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu continued her impressive run at the 2025 Italian Open with a comeback win against Veronika Kudermetova\u00a0in the third round. The 2021 US Open champion claimed a 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 victory over 50th-ranked Kudermetova after two hours and 32 minutes\u00a0on the\u00a0Super Tennis Arena in Rome. Raducanu lost a strongly contested opening set after she […]<\/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-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h2>\n
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