By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, August 24, 2025
New York – Fluorescent Nike orange shoes Ema Raducanu Dressed in court was not the only bright assertion of its open return to the US.
The Open Open 2021 champion scored a win of the statements, obstructing the doubles specialist ENA SHIBAHARA 6-1, 6-2 on a 62-minute road at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in today’s opening.
Although Raducanu took the court as the heavy favorite and breeze in the first 5-0 lead and a 4-0 advantage of the second set, this was still a significant first step.
The 22-year-old British scored her first US Open victory since defeating Leylalah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 in the Flushing Meadows 2021 final.
“Of course I’m very, very pleased to have won that match,” Raducanu said. “Win is my first victory here since 2021, so it’s extremely special. The first rounds are always difficult, especially in a collision, you know, there are nerves, and I’m just as happy with the way I came through that
“Playing the container, it is really complicated, it hits so many balls at the initial base that I didn’t expect to dive and it definitely came through qualification and you feel you have a little advantage. You are playing on the surface and knows how it feels. So I’m just very pleased with the way I got myself, how I managed my game through it.”
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Then, Raducanu said the demolition for another New York victory, the site of its only title, has been an advantage.
“Yes, it has been in my mind. It’s been four years, and it’s a very special tour for me,” Raducanu said. “I felt different going into it this year. I felt like I was doing the right things every day, but still, it is in the back of your head. So I’m just very pleased to overcome it.”
World no. 35 Raducanu decided the tone of service to set her first strike.
Raducanu served 73 percent, won 27 of the 33 points of the first service, and saved the only holiday point he faced, holding a 5-1 lead of the second set.
Four years ago, Raducanu was lighting the bright Meadows star last Saturday. Raducanu made the story as the first qualifier – a man or woman – playing through the qualification and win a title of Grand Slam celles in 2021 US Open.
Returning today at the first beginning of the tournament Sunday, Raducanu did the 130th-order qualifying qualifying to move to a double superiority 5-0 after just 19 minutes of play.
The champion of the mixed doubles in 2022 Roland Garros, Shibihara, does its best job moving forward in the Court Court.
Today, Raducanu constantly beaten him in the run rallies, pushing the Shibhara Shibhara drainage mistakes from the Japanese player’s precursor. Shibhara performed 36 forced mistakes –30 more than the 22-year-old Briton-and sometimes struggled with its first direction.
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Since her Cinderella ran in the US open title in 2021, Raducanu had suffered a successive first round exit in 2022 in Alize Cornet-last year when Sofia Kenni 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.
Working with the new coach Francisco Roig, the former long coach of Rafael Nadal, Raducanu deleted the widespread service on the court side of the court effectively and kept the ball moving the corner to the corner. Athleticism and its speed around the court were the main components such as its positive attitude.
Coach Roig was sitting in the corner of the court just near the player’s towel boxes, but Raducanu said between the size and noise of the Armstrong stadium, she could not really and was very zoned in action anyway.
“I really don’t hear a lot. It is so difficult. And even if you’re in court and looking, you
Do not really listen if you are not a kind of lip reading, “Raducanu said.” Really really hard if you are not in the box and you are talking very close and looking, it is so difficult to listen. I probably don’t get much of what he is saying, but I think, you know, when I feel like I really need it, then I will go and go and go and go and go and go and go and
Look and you will understand.
“But for the most part, especially when you’re in a match like today, I felt like I had more things under my court side. I just want to stay in my area and continue with what I’m doing.”
These days, a quieter Raducanu is playing more freely.
“Well, I think that compared to four years ago, I feel comfortable, I feel happy, I feel like the same court in terms of my tennis taste, enjoying the practice, enjoying competition and the improvement process,” Raducanu said. “I think I feel the same in that sense. But I’m just more aware now about everything possible.
“And, you know, when I won in ’21, I don’t know, I think of this world of possible negativity and lowering people, bringing players. I would say that the Type I touch me a lot in recent years. I still get me from time to time, but I generally think I can enjoy what I am doing more every day, I am just happy.
Can Raducanu, who pushed the world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka to the border to suffer a 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (5) Cincinnati that lasted three hours, nine minutes, turn this open on another journey with joy?
The difficulty rate will increase significantly like Washington, DC Raducanu’s semifinalist will face either the 24th age Veronika Kuddermeva or the next Janice qualifier. The winner of that collision can face the former champion of Wimbledon Elena Rybakina, if the seeds are true to form in the third round.
Today’s triumph was just the 14th victory of the main match for Raducanu since she raised the trophy of the 2021 title in Queens.
For now, Raducanu is trying to ride positive vibe – and the winning wave – which has been lost since her inspired title candidacy.
“I would say I feel very different from 2022. I really struggled when I returned in 2022,” Raducanu said. “I didn’t like to go back here. I think now is the first time I feel like I can go back to the open US and really enjoy the memories I made here and be proud of it and see it as a happy place.
“So for that, I feel very grateful and very pleased. So now I feel in a much better place.”
