JAKARTA – It took Elena Rybakina 62 minutes to defeat Emma Raducanu with a convincing 6-1, 6-2 score in New York on Friday local time (Saturday WIB), August 30. This victory marked Rybakina's first against the fellow Grand Slam champion at the 2025 US Open.
Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, advanced to the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the first time in her seventh main draw appearance. The Kazakh tennis player has now completed her fourth Grand Slam appearance in the second week.
"For some reason, the US Open over the years hasn't been very successful for me," Rybakina said in an on-court interview, as broadcast by the WTA, reported by ANTARA.
"So hopefully, this year that will change."
Rybakina will next face her successor as Wimbledon champion, 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova, who defeated seventh seed Jasmine Paolini 7-6(4), 6-1.
The two 26-year-olds have competed since their junior years and have shared two professional meetings, with Vondrousova winning in Moscow 2021 and Rybakina in Rome 2023.
Rybakina has now conceded only four games to Raducanu in their two combined meetings. Their first meeting came in the first round of Sydney 2022, Raducanu's fourth tournament following her victory at the 2021 US Open. Rybakina won 6-0, 6-1.
Rybakina opened the match with a forehand winner on the first point. The shot set the tone for a near-perfect, and utterly dominant, match at Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Rybakina hit 23 winners in 15 games. Raducanu, meanwhile, scored eight points, only one of which came in the first set.
Rybakina had no trouble serving, conceding only three points after her first serve and never facing a break point.
Although Raducanu's serve was key to her victories over the two qualifiers in the previous two rounds, Rybakina's return quality was far superior.
The British player only managed to win 50 percent of her points on serve overall, and only 29 percent after her second serve.
In total, Rybakina earned 56 points, while Raducanu earned 35.
"I'm very happy with her performance. Playing against Emma is always tough, sometimes the score doesn't show, but she's a tough competitor," said Rybakina.
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