Emma Raducanu will play two-time Grand Slam finalist and former world No 1 Karolina Pliskova within the first spherical of the Madrid Open on Wednesday as she seems to proceed her encouraging type on the clay.
Raducanu received 4 matches in a row on the floor final week, with two victories whereas representing Nice Britain in opposition to France on the Billie Jean King Cup adopted by triumphs over Angelique Kerber and Linda Noskova on the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
The Briton was knocked out within the quarter-finals in Stuttgart after a gutsy defeat to world No 1 Iga Swiatek.
The 2021 US Open champion will now return to the courtroom within the Spanish capital, reside on Sky Sports activities, in opposition to Pliskova, a participant who made the 2016 US Open closing and 2021 Wimbledon closing and who’s at the moment ranked forty sixth on this planet.
Ought to Raducanu win her opening match, she is going to face seventeenth seed Veronika Kudermetova in spherical two.
Fellow Brit Katie Boulter has been given a first-round bye as she is the twenty sixth seed and can meet the winner of the match between American wild card Robin Montgomery and Russia’s Elina Avanesyan.
Boulter will play second seed Aryna Sabalenka if each gamers make it to the third spherical in Madrid.
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