{"id":234151,"date":"2025-07-03T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234151\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:46:09","slug":"raducanu-revels-in-centre-court-joy-after-one-of-the-best-matches-ive-played-wimbledon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234151\/","title":{"rendered":"Raducanu revels in Centre Court joy after \u2018one of the best matches I\u2019ve played\u2019 | Wimbledon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Raducanu has described her stellar second-round victory over Marketa Vondrousova<\/a> at Wimbledon as one of the best matches she has played in a long time as she set up a highly anticipated meeting with the world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n

Raducanu produced an excellent performance to reach the third round of Wimbledon with a 6-3, 6-3 win over the 2023 champion Vondrousova<\/a>, ensuring that she has now reached the third round or better at Wimbledon on three of her four appearances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was one of the best matches I\u2019ve played in a long time, which I\u2019m very proud of,\u201d said Raducanu. \u201cAt the same time, I didn\u2019t feel like I was doing anything outrageous, which gives me a lot of confidence. I think I was just doing the basics very, very well. I executed really well today. I\u2019m just so happy to have that level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Vondrousova has struggled with numerous injuries over the last two years, falling as low as No 164 in the WTA rankings last month, she arrived at Wimbledon<\/a> as one of the most in-\u200aform players after winning the Berlin Open on grass, a run that included a win over Sabalenka. With her superior form, her history at Wimbledon and her victory over Raducanu earlier this year in Abu Dhabi, Vondrousova entered Centre Court the favourite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no better feeling than winning here at Wimbledon, winning on Centre Court, it honestly makes everything worth it,\u201d said Raducanu. \u201cYou forget about everything, all the ups and downs \u2013 and many downs \u2013 when you\u2019re out there and you win. It\u2019s so fleeting. It lasts a few minutes after the match and now. Quickly you need to kind of get back in gear for the next day and the next round. For the rest of the evening I\u2019m going to enjoy that one because I think it was really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raducanu\u2019s victory ensures that she will return to Centre Court for one of the toughest challenges in her sport as she faces Sabalenka, the No 1 seed and a three-time grand slam champion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know it\u2019s going to be a massive challenge,\u201d said Raducanu. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to play some really good tennis. For the rest of the evening I just want to savour that one and enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has described her stellar second-round victory over Marketa Vondrousova at Wimbledon as one of the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234151","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\/114788196900283987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234151","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=234151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}