Emma Raducanu made a strong start to her 2025 US Open campaign, but the 22-year-old Brit\u2019s run ended with a chastening third round defeat to a hugely impressive Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n
No 9 seed Rybakina<\/a> delivered a devastating display of big-hitting tennis to crush Raducanu<\/a> 6-1, 6-2 in just an hour and three minutes in Louis Armstrong Stadium at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n The third round encounter promised to be a blockbuster given the form of Raducanu, who dropped only three games in each of her first two matches.<\/p>\n Raducanu\u2019s first two opponents, Ena Shibahara and Janice Tjen, were ranked 128th and 149th respectively, and it proved to be a monumental step-up against Rybakina \u2014 who won Wimbledon in 2022.<\/p>\n The 2021 US Open winner pushed world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka hard in matches in Cincinnati and Wimbledon in the past two months, but she was never in this contest with the world No 10.<\/p>\n The world No 36 lost her serve twice in each set and did not create a single break point against the big-serving Rybakina, despite the 26-year-old Kazakh landing just 47% of her first serves.<\/p>\n In her on-court interview, Rybakina said: \u201cReally happy with the performance, it\u2019s not easy playing against Emma.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes the score doesn\u2019t show, but she\u2019s a tough competitor.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu\u2019s ex-coach reveals star\u2019s \u2018difficult\u2019 spell in revealing comments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek gets glowing Serena Williams comparison from American legend\u2019s former coach<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with how I played today and I\u2019m looking forward to the next match.<\/p>\n \u201cThroughout the years, for some reason the US Open wasn\u2019t successful for me. Hopefully that changes this year and I can go as far as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking on Sky Sports, former British No 1 Laura Robson praised Rybakina while questioning Raducanu\u2019s tactical inconsistency.<\/p>\n \u201cRybakina has played a great match there,\u201d said the former world No 27.<\/p>\n \u201cIn terms of her groundstrokes, she was playing so freely, going for her shots. She was never rushed, that was the big thing that stood out.<\/p>\n \u201cRaducanu wasn\u2019t committed tactically. At times it looked like she was trying to hit big, but then the next point she\u2019d take half a step back.<\/p>\n \u201cIt gave Rybakina this easy rhythm to work with, and she was just able to put so much pressure on Raducanu.\u201d<\/p>\n Former world No 4 Tim Henman also gave his verdict: \u201cCredit where credit is due: I thought Rybakina was outstanding from the word go.<\/p>\n \u201cShe came out with that aggressive ball-striking, which is her bread and butter. It\u2019s why she is a Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n \u201cShe really went after Raducanu\u2019s serve, got that early break and the momentum just built and built. It was a very complete and consistent performance from Rybakina.\u201d<\/p>\n Rybakina will play either Jasmine Paolini or Marketa Vondrousova in the fourth round.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Goran Ivanisevic\u2019s true opinion on Elena Rybakina revealed after split as Wimbledon title claim made<\/a> The post Emma Raducanu suffers brutal US Open loss to Elena Rybakina as Tim Henman and Laura Robson react<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Raducanu made a strong start to her 2025 US Open campaign, but the 22-year-old Brit\u2019s run ended with a chastening third round defeat to a hugely impressive Elena Rybakina. No 9 seed Rybakina delivered a devastating display of big-hitting tennis to crush Raducanu 6-1, 6-2 in just an hour and three minutes in Louis […]<\/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-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}US Open News<\/h2>\n
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