{"id":187450,"date":"2025-08-30T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187450\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:45:21","slug":"elena-rybakina-offers-honest-assessment-of-emma-raducanus-level-after-beating-her-at-the-us-open-i-was-a-bit-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187450\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina offers honest assessment of Emma Raducanu\u2019s level after beating her at the US Open, \u2018I was a bit lucky\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elena Rybakina has sought to explain why, despite dominating Emma Raducanu to knock her out of the US Open, she feels she got a bit lucky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a questionable take from the 26-year-old, who was inspired throughout her clash with the Brit.<\/p>\n

Every shot she hit had power and depth, and her opponent simply could not live with it. Realistically, there are very few players on tour who would have been able to.<\/p>\n

She was rampant throughout and proved why she has to be considered a huge threat for this US Open<\/a> title.<\/p>\n

And yet, Elena Rybakina<\/a> was measured and magnanimous in her post-match assessment of Emma Raducanu\u2019s<\/a> level.<\/p>\n

Elena Rybakina explains why she got lucky vs Emma Raducanu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters during her press conference, she first rated her own level before moving onto the threat Raducanu poses: \u201cToday was a good performance for me and always not easy to play against Emma, even sometimes the score doesn\u2019t show, but I know that against her, I know I need to play very aggressive and also try to play deep. So today I think I did pretty well, so I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, uh, I think that first matches there are always tough and plus the opponents I played that I didn\u2019t know much about them, never played before, and with Emma, we practised also a couple times, and as I said, I know that she\u2019s a tough opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been playing really well. So, of course, it\u2019s like a different kind of focus, and I know that I need to stay on top of the rallies because she\u2019s moving really well, and if you give her a chance, she will move the ball also. So, yeah, I was trying to just stay aggressive for my shots and play deep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rybakina then admitted: \u201cA couple of times I was a bit lucky.\u201d She expanded on that debatable notion by claiming: \u201cI was playing really deep and on the lines, which is very difficult, of course, to play back. So, yeah, I think of course, it\u2019s all about the mindset, and now I think there is, as I said, only tough opponents that you need to always try to bring your best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since that match, Raducanu has suggested that the best players raise their level when facing her<\/a>. Given she has won just three of her 16 meetings against top-ten players, it feels like she may also just not yet be at the level needed to regularly trouble the sport\u2019s elite.<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu\u2019s 2025 Grand Slam season in review<\/strong><\/p>\n

With her exit from the US Open confirmed, that brings Raducanu\u2019s 2025 Grand Slam season to an end.<\/p>\n

And, whilst she did not come close to challenging for any titles, it still marks a year of significant progress.<\/p>\n

\"EmmaPhoto by Marleen Fouchier\/BSR Agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

After all, it\u2019s the first season since 2022 where she has actually played in all four events, having qualified from on merits of her own ranking and retained her form and fitness.<\/p>\n

After so many years of inconsistency and injury scares, it\u2019s refreshing to see Raducanu play regularly, reaching the third round of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and the second round in Paris.<\/p>\n

This year should provide the foundation for plenty of future successes and will likely be looked back on with great fondness, given how integral it could be in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina has sought to explain why, despite dominating Emma Raducanu to knock her out of the US…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2766,10115,62,1464,67,132,68,10118],"class_list":{"0":"post-187450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-elena-rybakina","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115118258779778049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}