Emma Raducanu defeated close friend Elena-Gabriela Ruse in her opening match at the 2025 Canadian Open to continue her impressive form.<\/p>\n
The 2021 US Open winner earned a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Ruse, the world No 58, at the WTA<\/a> 1000 event in Montreal.<\/p>\n After saving five break points in the third game of the match, Raducanu<\/a>\u00a0broke Ruse twice to take the opening set convincingly.<\/p>\n In the second set, Raducanu was twice pegged back after being up a break, but she secured the third and decisive breakthrough on Ruse\u2019s serve at 4-4 before serving it out. She now holds a 2-0 record against the 27-year-old Romanian.<\/p>\n Raducanu has won four of her last five matches after her run to the semi-finals of the WTA 500 tournament in Washington DC last week.<\/p>\n In her on-court interview, Raducanu said: \u201cI\u2019m so happy to have come through that. I know Elena, she\u2019s a very good friend of mine.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to play someone you are close to, so I am really proud of how I put that to one side for the match and also backed up a strong week in DC and performed well today. Yeah, just really happy and loved playing here for the first time.<\/p>\n Who is Emma Raducanu\u2019s next Canadian Open opponent? American star Peyton Stearns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu dealt honest verdict on her US Open chances after Citi DC Open run<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt is extremely difficult [playing someone you know so well], we have spent a lot of time together off court, practices, and she is a great girl, so it is not nice when you have to see her name in the draw, but I am really pleased with how I performed myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Raducanu\u2019s run to the last four in Washington lifted her from 46th to 33rd in the world when the WTA Rankings updated on Monday.<\/p>\n However, she then fell nine places to 42nd in the live rankings when the points from her quarter-final result at the 2024 Citi Open dropped as\u00a0last year\u2019s event was held a week later in the calendar.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old\u2019s first round win in Montreal has lifted her back up three spots to 39th, and she has the opportunity to climb further.<\/p>\n Raducanu will face 37th-ranked Peyton Stearns in the second round, and victory would take the Brit above both Olga Danilovic and Stearns to 37th in the live rankings.<\/p>\n The former world No 10 did not compete at either the Canadian Open or the Cincinnati Open in 2024, which gives her a good chance to improve her ranking before the US Open.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0WTA Rankings: Leylah Fernandez, Anna Kalinskaya, Emma Raducanu, Maria Sakkari soar after Citi DC Open<\/a> The post Emma Raducanu has major rankings chance at Canadian Open after\u00a0\u2018extremely difficult\u2019 win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu defeated close friend Elena-Gabriela Ruse in her opening match at the 2025 Canadian Open to continue her impressive form. The 2021 US Open winner earned a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Ruse, the world No 58, at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal. After saving five break points in the third game of the […]<\/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-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu News<\/h2>\n
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