Emma Raducanu is playing some of the best clay-court tennis of her career in 2025, also showing a return to form at the Miami Open in March with a run to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Her next event is scheduled to be at the WTA event in Strasbourg, taking place from May 18 \u2013 May 24.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a> will face either Danielle Collins or Sofia Kenin in the second round, however, before she can look forward to that encounter, she must get past world No 15 Daria Kasatkina.<\/p>\n Here is all that you need to know about the Australian.<\/p>\n Kasatkina is a former world No 8, a position which she first achieved in October 2022.<\/p>\n Her best result at Grand Slam level was a semi-final showing at Roland Garros<\/a> that same year, reaching the last eight at the US Open in 2018.<\/p>\n As a junior, she was ranked as highly as world No 3 and claimed the title at the 2014 girls\u2019 singles event at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n Overall, Kasatkina has won eight titles, most recenly doing so in October 2024 at the Ningbo Open \u2013 a WTA 500 event.<\/p>\n The former world No 8 began her season by participating in three Australian events, making the second round in Brisbane, the quarter-final in Adelaide, and the fourth round at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n From there, Kastatkina lost in her opening match in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, reaching the round of 16 at the Qatar Open.<\/p>\n At Indian Wells, she got a solid victory over Sofa Kenin, before losing her next match, as well as her opening encounter at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n On the clay, Kasatkina has managed to win two out of the five singles matches that she has contested.<\/p>\n WTA Strasbourg draw: Raducanu gets brutal opener as Pegula, Navarro, Badosa, Rybakina headline<\/a><\/p>\n French Open women\u2019s singles projected seeds: Iga Swiatek set for lowest seeding in three years<\/a><\/p>\n Unfortunately for Raducanu, it is Kasatkina who has won all three of their matches.<\/p>\n Their first encounter arrived at the Ostrava Open in 2022, when the Australian was in the best form of her life \u2013 claiming the match 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n Nearly two years later, they met at the Rothesay International event, with Raducanu being completely outplayed 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n Their most recent match occurred at the Korea Open in September 2024, where the Brit retired from the match after losing the first set 6-1 \u2013 due to an ongoing foot issue.<\/p>\n After the match, Kasatkina said: \u201cI feel sorry for Emma. It\u2019s a pity to get injured, especially in the deeper stages of the tournament. I wish her a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Who will Emma Raducanu face in WTA Strasbourg opener? World No 15 Daria Kasatkina<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu is playing some of the best clay-court tennis of her career in 2025, also showing a return to form at the Miami Open in March with a run to the quarter-finals. Her next event is scheduled to be at the WTA event in Strasbourg, taking place from May 18 \u2013 May 24. 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-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Career Highlights<\/h4>\n
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