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One day after beating Serena Williams, 10th seed Emma Radukhanu won another Grand Slam champion with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Victoria Azarenka in the second round of the Western Open on Wednesday. was dismantled. in Mason, Ohio.
This 19-year-old Briton easily beat her 33-year-old Azarenka from Belarus in her 62-minute bout with five aces and her six break points. 5 were successful.
In her first two bouts at a Cincinnati-area event, Radukhanu resembled the form she had when she won the US Open last year. It took her only 65 minutes to beat Williams on Tuesday night and brought in the same level of play within 24 hours.
"I certainly had a great match. To play against Vika, I had to stay focused the whole time," she said after the match. Told. “In the second set, I could feel the key moments and some turning points that could make the second set really difficult.
It was really difficult to serve in the last match.”
With his victory over world No. 22 Azarenka, Radukhanu surpassed the top 30 players since winning the US Open title. .
Radukanu beat her eighteen winners to Azarenka's ten.
Raducanu says her next opponent is No. 7 seed Jessica Pegula. Jessica Pegula scored her 6-7 (5) 6-1 6-2 victory over Ukraine. Marta Kostyuk.
No. 1 seed Igaswiertek beat Sloane Stephens with her 6-4 7-5. The Polish native scored her 71.7% of her points on first serve and saved her 7 of her 11 break points while leading the tour in her 50th game of the year. won the
Swiatek overcame her 25 unforced errors and in the winner she held a 17-9 lead.
Stephens won his next three games after his Swiatek led 5-2 in the second set. Switaek closed out by recovering and winning his final two bouts.
Wimbledon her champion Elena Rivakina of Kazakhstan moved forward with her 6-3 6-1 win over Spain's Garbine Muguruza. The eighth-seeded Ryvakina hit eight aces and she hit six of her 10 break points.
No. 5-seeded Tunisian Ons Jabbar beat Cincinnati hometown Catty McNally 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7).
"Honestly, I'm not playing my best tennis right now," he said Jabeur. "But it's nice to win ugly. I fought a lot and it was nice to bring that energy in the end and bring it out. I needed it." , defeated third-seeded Paula Badosa of Spain 6-7(3) 6-0 6-2. Sixth-seeded Alina Sabalenka of Belarus led 6-3, 4-1, while Russia's Anna Kalinskaya withdrew.
Belgium's Elise Mertens defeated No. 14-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova with her 7-6 (3) 6-3 win.
No. 15 seed Romania's Simona Halep withdrew with her right thigh injury, while Russia's Veronica Kudermetova won a bye.
Madison Keys of the United States also won her 6-4, 7-5 victory over No. 16 seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia. In the key he had five aces.
Winning by default was Alison Liske's Amri Traj, who advanced when Czech Marie's Buzkova withdrew with an injury to her right torso.
In other matches, Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic beat Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-3 and China's Shuai Chan beat Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3 6-4. Did.
– Field Level Media
