Emma Raducanu got her campaign at the new WTA 500 tournament at the Queen\u2019s Club in London off to a flying start and she got an instant rankings boost from her win against Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa.<\/p>\n
The British No 2 is now on course to take over the top spot in her national rankings from Katie Boulter after this win, as she jumped up to No 37 in the live WTA Rankings after this win.<\/p>\n
It means she is one place above Boulter, who she played doubles win as they won their opening match at Queen\u2019s on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI must say I was quite locked in today,\u201d said Raducanu<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m very pleased with my performance. I was a little bit nervous for sure at the beginning, it\u2019s my first time playing on this court at Queen\u2019s in London, and the support is incredible.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still trying to find my groove on this surface. There are certain shots that I feel like I am a little bit late on, so I\u2019m working on that.<\/p>\n How Lois Boisson broke an Emma Raducanu WTA Rankings record with French Open run<\/a><\/p>\n Prize money earned by Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Emma Raducanu in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI knew today was going to be a very difficult match. I actually lost to Cristina earlier on in the year, so I was really trying to fight and make sure that didn\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n \u201cI was really trying to fight and get myself into the second round, because I just want to stay here playing at Queen\u2019s as many matches as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked how she felt to be playing on the newly renamed Andy Murray Arena, Raducanu added: \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly special.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw the arena, it\u2019s amazing what Andy achieved here and he\u2019s such an inspiration to all of us. To see him open up this court yesterday was amazing.<\/p>\n \u201cFor us girls to have this tournament here finally, after watching the TV and seeing the men play [here], is really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n Boulter could still finish this week as British No 1 if she has a good week at Queen\u2019s and she started her campaign with a battling win against Australian qualifier Ajla Tomljanovic.<\/p>\n The Brit looked in troubled as she was well beaten in the second set of her match, but she battled back to win 7-6(4), 1-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n \u201cI was battling really hard out there. I know how good Ajla is. She has made many quarter-finals at slams and she is very good on this surface,\u201d said Boulter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is never easy coming straight from the clay to the grass and I\u2019m just happy to get through and feel very grateful for all of you guys [for the support].<\/p>\n \u201cIt was really difficult. I did feel like I was battling my own mind at times, this surface can do that to you.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t feel like I served that great, and I have room to improve, but I\u2019m just happy to be through to the second round.<\/p>\n \u201cI came out yesterday to watch Andy get his first court [named after him], which is special in itself. To get the women back here [at Queen\u2019s] feels very special.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s actually something I dreamt of, having come here the last couple of years to watch the men play, so I\u2019m just really grateful to be on this court.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Emma Raducanu makes brutally honest confession after winning first match at Queen\u2019s Club<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu secures significant rankings breakthrough with Queen\u2019s Club win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu got her campaign at the new WTA 500 tournament at the Queen\u2019s Club in London off to a flying start and she got an instant rankings boost from her win against Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa. The British No 2 is now on course to take over the top spot in her national rankings […]<\/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-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h3>\n