By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now | Sunday, May 11, 2025
Photo Credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty
Flushing Meadows is a long road from Foro Italyo.
Still, we can see pop -level electricity pop Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu Rome’s red mud square for a quarterfinal place.
Today, the fourth gaffe sent Magda Linette 7-5, 6-3 to reach the 16th round for the fourth time.
Raducanu resurrected withdrew tremendously.
Raducanu sat in 12 of the last 13 games in a 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 win Veronika KudderMova To reach her daughter’s Rome round of 16.
21-year-old Guff is the youngest woman to reach Rome’s round of 16 four times since the former NR. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in 2011.
Despite the clumsy-gauff service patches hit six double mistakes without the Aces-champion of WTA Finals found the range and its rhythm as the match progressed in revenge a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Linette in front of her home fans in Miami Open in March.
Revenge for that loss holds Guff on a historic road in the eternal city. The Delray beach Baseliner is offering to become the youngest woman to reach the final of Madrid and Rome in the same season and the first American to win Rome since Serena Williams in 2016.
After a fierce opening round victory, Gauff sailed to a stress test converting her fifth point of match-after she saved a resting point-to close within an hour, 41 minutes. Gauff gave himself a note B for Mother’s Day victory.
“Maybe a b; I think I was playing the whole match the whole match,” Guff said Hospital of Prakash Amritraj Tennis Channel Then. “I think I could have received more depth in the first set.
“Maybe one because I lost to her in Miami, so it was good to take revenge.
“I just try to focus on breathing and try to slow my breath down (under pressure) and just try to forget it. Because you can’t change the past. It was definitely disappointing towards the end by losing all those points of match, but happy to close it in my service.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vab11eHMSHS
It opens the prospect of creativity of all judges colliding when Gauff and Raducanu meet for the first time in Red Clay. Will be their second general meeting.
In a match of both Superb and once sporadic Shot, Gauff defeated Raducanu 6-3, 7-6 (4) in Australian Open in what many thought was a observation of the big battlefields.
Rome’s twice semi-finalist and former French open Final Gauff is much more experienced in clay than Raducanu.
However, the 49th Raducanu is playing the best clay tennis of her life now.
“I’ll look at some (Guff match), I think my team will watch,” Raducanu said The Prakash Amritraj channel tennis. “She is such a great opponent that you know you have to play really well and execute your excellent game.
“I think I have removed from my opponent’s study so much and (instead) focusing on myself.”
Tennis channel commentator and former ATP Pro Mark Petchey It is not ranked as Raducanu’s official coach, but he has been useful in its swelling. Petchey, who previously trained Andy Murray, has been in the Raducanu box as a useless coach since Miami started and made a training block before this clay campaign began.
Working with Petchey and Jane O’Donoghue, a revival Raducanu posted an 8-2 record in her last three events, reached the Miami Open quarterfinal and returned to the top 50 for the first time in three years.
Importantly, Raducanu, who was sprinkled by a stalker while swinging in the Middle East, looks much happier in court these days. This indicates the fact that she is fighting on a point basis and not allowing gloomy circumstances, such as non-grief to serve the first set at 5-4 today, wet her fighting spirit.
Of course, Raducanu will need more than good vibrations and sound play plan against Gufff.
The WTA finals champion Guff said she is waiting for “a great match” against Raducanu.
“She’s obviously an excellent player,” said gafff Hospital of Prakash Amritraj Tennis Channel. “The last time we played was a great match.
“I think she has the game to be an excellent Clay Court player obviously a great player in general, but especially in Clay. It will be a great match. I’m looking forward to the victory.”
Both women are extremely fast around the court, both are agile athletes that can create magic in motion and both can bring variety to rallies.
Gauff often plays high upper upper forewords below the line to move both opponents behind the initial base and create the back exchanges of the intersection, where it is so deadly.
Like Gauff, Raducanu’s back is its most reliable arm, but British premature control is not as extreme as Gauff’s western control, so it is usually more dangerous in the low ball for the former.
Raducanu changed the rhythm and heights of its shooting, defusing Kuddermemeta hit by the square.
Can Raducanu work slice shot to make gafff dig low balls with its ardent first? How will Gauff respond to Raducanu’s favorite service – the wide sliced ​​on the side of the Deuce she uses to open the court for the first strike?
Who will win the battle of the court positioning and how will Raducanu respond if Guff is violating her explosion with authority as she dismantled the champion robber Garros Iga Swiatek in Madrid?
These are questions to consider when the US open champion collides in Rome’s red clay.
It was a great day for us open champions.
Open Open US 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu broke three times and saved all five of the resting points that faced the 2023 Roma champion’s concern Elena Rybakina6-2, 6-4.
Setting up the worrying variety of shooting, Andreescu progressed in the 16th round, where she could meet with the Olympic gold medal Olympic Olympic Medal Zheng Qinwen.
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All this happened after the US open champion reigned and no. 1 world Sabalenka subjected to 2020 Australian Open Champion Sofa 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
The Great Belarus Sabalenka will face Ukrainian Martha Kostyuk for a quarterfinal place.
