British star Emma Raducanu continued her gorgeous type on clay as she sealed an emphatic win in opposition to Angelique Kerber on the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Wednesday.
Raducanu, ranked 303rd on this planet as she continues her comeback from double wrist surgical procedure, has struggled with type and accidents since her fairytale US Open title in 2021.
However the 21-year-old, who was in impressed type on the weekend as she helped Nice Britain qualify for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in gorgeous vogue with a 3-1 win over France, continued the place she left off by dismantling house favorite Kerber 6-2 6-1.
Former world No 1 Kerber solely just lately returned from 18 months out on maternity go away and it confirmed all through.
Raducanu bought off to a flying begin by breaking Kerber within the opening sport and regardless of an instantaneous response from the German, the Briton took management and claimed the primary set in 41 minutes.
Kerber was damaged once more at first of the second set and though she managed to haul again stage, Raducanu stepped up a gear and shrugged off a short go to from the coach to wrap up an emphatic win.
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US Open champion Coco Gauff battled her strategy to the quarter-finals of the identical occasion earlier on Wednesday with a hard-fought 6-3 4-6 7-5 win over compatriot Sachia Vickery.
The 134th-ranked Vickery created 19 break factors however might solely convert seven of them in opposition to world No 3 Gauff, who rallied from 4-2 down within the last set to win.
Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur lastly snapped a five-game shedding streak to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-1), telling reporters: “I considered withdrawing so many occasions as a result of I could not take one other loss.”
In Rouen, Naomi Osaka’s return to clay was lower quick by a 6-4 6-2 first-round defeat to Martina Trevisan.
Like Kerber, Osaka solely just lately returned to the tour following maternity go away, and was competing as a wild card.
Within the Oeiras Women Open in Portugal, Britain’s fifth-seeded Harriet Dart suffered a 6-3 6-1 defeat to house participant Matilde Jorge.
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