The 21-year-old declared at the start of the week that she was playing the best tennis of her career and swatted aside Linda Noskova 6-0, 7-5. The real test to her claim comes later on Friday afternoon when she faces the world No1 Iga Swiatek for a place in the semi-finals. Noskova is no slouch having knocked out Swiatek herself in one of the early shocks at this year’s Australian Open but Raducanu was a class apart from the outset.
World number one and defending champion Iga Swiatek progressed to the quarter-finals of the WTA Stuttgart clay-court tournament by beating Elise Mertens in straight sets on Thursday, her ninth win in nine career matches at the French Open warm-up event. I'll build an underground garage," said Swiatek after playing her first clay-court match since lifting the French Open title last June.
Emma Raducanu continued her comeback to tour-level tennis in fine fashion after securing a fourth straight win – the first time she has achieved such a feat since her 2021 US Open triumph – to move into the quarter-finals of the Stuttgart Open.