The 21-year-old came from a set and a break down to beat world No 5 Jessica Pegula
came from match point down to beat Jessica Pegula and win against a top-10 opponent for the first time on Wednesday, triumphing 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.
Raducanu had lost all seven of her previous encounters with top-10 players in straight sets, but got her first on the board after coming back from 3-0 down and saving a match point in the tie-break to force a decider. World No 5 Pegula won the title in Berlin on Sunday, having been match points down herself to Anna Kalinskaya, showed some signs of fatigue as the match wore on in 27-degree heat and her unforced error count saw her drop serve three times in the decider.Raducanu herself did fail to serve the match out twice but managed it at the third time of asking and will now face either No 9 seed Daria Kasatkina or China’s Yuan Yue in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
“I’m really pleased with how I was able to navigate again some really tough situations and I didn’t think I’d be able to get myself out of it,” Raducanu said.“I’ve been going through some stuff and to come through it, it’s been really nice.” The 2021 US Open champion skipped the French Open earlier this year to prioritise her fitness for the grass-court swing, a decision now surely justified by four wins on home soil and a self-confessed renewal of her passion for the game of tennis.campaign in two years will start next week, and she will enter Friday’s draw as a dangerous unseeded player no one will want to face.
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