{"id":116000,"date":"2025-05-20T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116000\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:13:10","slug":"emma-raducanu-powers-to-impressive-win-over-daria-kasatkina-in-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116000\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu powers to impressive win over Daria Kasatkina in Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"

19 May 2025, 22:45<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n

Picture:
\nGetty
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Emma Raducanu continued her impressive clay-court form as she swept aside sixth seed Daria Kasatkina in the first round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

The British number two, who won three games on the surface for the first time in her career last week as she reached the quarter-finals of the Italian Open, beat the world number 17 6-1 6-3.<\/p>\n

It was another notable scalp for Raducanu, playing her final tournament before the upcoming French Open, having lost to the Australian in each of their three previous meetings.<\/p>\n

Raducanu made a searing start by breaking her opponent in the opening game of the match and, despite being broken straight back, the 22-year-old proceeded to reel off the next five games to take the first set 6-1.<\/p>\n

Read more: ‘I recognise the upset I caused’: Gary Lineker apologises as he quits BBC after anti-Semitism row<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n

Picture:
\nGetty
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

The second set started in the same vein for Raducanu, who served for a 1-0 lead, before seven successive breaks of serve saw the Briton emerge with a chance to serve for the match at 5-3.<\/p>\n

Raducanu found it anything but straightforward so close to the winning line, spurning her first two match points due to a crisp Kasatkina return then a netted backhand slice.<\/p>\n

Kasatkina once again stepped up to save a third match point before Raducanu finally managed to get over the line at the fourth time of trying.<\/p>\n

Raducanu, who took a wild card for the tournament having not initially intended to compete, will next face American Danielle Collins, who beat compatriot Sofia Kenin in three sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo bring that level here, I\u2019m really proud,\u201d said Raducanu in her on-court interview after the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as I spend more time on clay I\u2019m starting to get to like it a little bit more and more and I\u2019m kind of building my relationship with the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Harriet Dart was knocked out in the first round of French Open qualifying after being beaten 6-1 6-2 by Ukraine\u2019s Anastasiia Sobolieva.<\/p>\n

A dominant Sobolieva broke the Briton\u2019s serve twice in the opening set as she wrapped it up in 28 minutes.<\/p>\n

Dart was broken twice more at the start of the second set before responding with a break of her own, but Sobolieva continued to impress and closed out a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 May 2025, 22:45 Emma Raducanu. Picture: Getty Emma Raducanu continued her impressive clay-court form as she swept…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-116000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114537982196075292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}