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Breaks for *4-3 rather vocally.

She's brought a cheerleader, herself   biggrin



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This is ruddy impressive by the way. Movement and grit.

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Yep, why not bang down an ace to take it to 5-3*

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Had a couple of MPs and didn't do a lot wrong but her opponent decided to play really well to get through the game.

*5-4

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Emma yells vs polite applause gets us to deuce.

MP ...

Game, set and match 

6-4 6-4



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Well!


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And so I watched Emma Raducanu get her first ranking point ...

Thank you to Oakland for the score reference so I even realised it was on   



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Zheng is a 19 yo former JWR13, playing a hairs breadth from her best senior form.
Emma took her apart, easily.
WR574 defeated for your first pro MD win and first point, and a new CH and...


That FH is straight out of the Halep/Begu school.

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Needless to say that at 15 years 4 months Emma is now going to be our youngest player currently with a ranking point ( well at least one ), taking over from Gemma Heath.

Looking at the momentum graph I see that she was 2-4* 15-40* down in the first set then won 14 of the next 16 points and then saved a BP as she served out the set ( as she did when serving out the second set and match ).



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L32: (Q) Emma Raducanu UNR, age 15, JWR 45 beat (8) Wushuang Zheng (CHN) WR 574 ( CH 564 in February), age 19, JCH 13

L16: (Q) Emma Raducanu UNR, age 15, JWR 45 vs (Q) Sofia Smagina (RUS) UNR (CH 1012 in February 2015), age 21

Smagina has no ITF activity showing for 2 years prior to last week's Nanjing tournament. Decent looking straight sets win in R1 over the WR 761 though.



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I watched the first few games of the match before sleeping. Emma was 0-2 down then evened up at 2-2. I was impressed by the court surroundings with a sloping grass bank on one side (for balls to roll down), and then gently stepped terracing seating on the other side, with a huge stand behind the far side of the court, and what was on the camera side you of course couldn't see. An umpire only with the two doing all their own ball fetching. Zheng started playing really well, but Emma once she got into the game was also striking the ball cleanly. Between them they looked like a pretty good pair of young professionals, and you would certainly have never guessed this was Emma's first pro R32 match, ending with her first pro point. She looked far more seasoned than that.

So extremely impressive, and congrats young lady, may the gods be with you...



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That deserves a big smile

Well done, young Emma.

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WOW :D
Brilliant stuff from Emma :D

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Thanks Indi ... until you posted that it was streamed I was about to nod off ... but then once you know... we'll the temptation was too much.

Emma did very well, I am very glad though that she has started the professional journey, it is a long tough one and I think it is good to sample the reality of playing away from home with not a spectator to be seen and picking your own balls up all that said it is not a bad Easter school holiday job! Understandably she has improved a lot from junior Wimbledon last year ... admittedly only 14, the game just slid away from her. Here she looked very focused throughout, celebrated her success and challenged some calls.

Her opponent was more than decent and it was a good test. Emma is a very mobile athlete on occasions keeping herself in the point and allowing her opponent to make mistakes. Her backhand will serve her very well over time lots of power and control, her serve if she can get the accuracy she got when serving that ace (and what a time to serve it!) consistently could turn into a weapon that goes under the radar.

She definitely already belongs at this level and it will be interesting to see how she goes through the rest of the tournament.

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Yes, interesting though blob's comment on Emma's forehand, it was the relentlessly accurate and pretty powerful backhand that I most took away from the match along with movement and tenacity.

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