Emma Raducanu continued her resurgent form with a dominant straight-set win over Daria Kasatkina in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n
The 2021 US Open champion claimed an impressive 6-1, 6-3 victory against world No 17 Kasatkina in the opening round of the clay-court WTA 500 event.<\/p>\n
Raducanu<\/a>\u00a0entered the match with a 0-3 record against Kasatkina and she had not previously won a set against the 28-year-old Russian-born Australian star.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old broke Kasatkina four times\u00a0as she stormed to win a one-sided first set in under half an hour.<\/p>\n After Raducanu held in the opening game of the second set, there were six consecutive breaks of serve before the\u00a0Brit converted her fourth match point to serve out for a convincing win.<\/p>\n While Raducanu lost serve four times, she broke in all eight of her opponent\u2019s service games.<\/p>\n Raducanu, who started the week as the world No 43, is up two places to 41st with the 60 points earned for her first round win in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n The former world No 10 could return to the top 40 if she reaches the quarter-finals of the 500 tournament.<\/p>\n After her win, Raducanu said: \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been building towards this. It\u2019s a great feeling.<\/p>\n \u201cI had three great matches in Rome and the fourth I played an opponent who was better than me on the day. To bring that level here, I\u2019m really proud.<\/p>\n \u201cI think as I spend more time on clay I\u2019m starting to get to like it even more. I\u2019m kind of building my relationship with the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n WTA Rankings: Gauff No 2, Swiatek\u2019s lowest position since 2022, Boulter and Raducanu battle heats up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Points and money earned by Paolini, Gauff, Swiatek, Raducanu, Eala at Italian Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Raducanu will face 46th-ranked Danielle Collins in the second round.<\/p>\n Collins defeated fellow American Sofia Kenin 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 in her opener.<\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu secures WTA Rankings boost with dominant Daria Kasatkina win in Strasbourg<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu continued her resurgent form with a dominant straight-set win over Daria Kasatkina in Strasbourg. The 2021 US Open champion claimed an impressive 6-1, 6-3 victory against world No 17 Kasatkina in the opening round of the clay-court WTA 500 event. Raducanu\u00a0entered the match with a 0-3 record against Kasatkina and she had not […]<\/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-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n