Emma Raducanu had started the 2024 season outside the world’s top 300, but now she has gone up to 32 in the Live WTA Ranking. Previously, in an interview with SkySports, Tim Henman had said the world’s top 30 is a “completely realistic” target in 2025 for Raducanu if she can stay injury-free. Now, perhaps she’s inches closer to fulfilling that target. But talking about setting targets for herself, her sole target for this season was to play more matches than she did in the 2024 season, and guess what?
She has already played 35 matches this season and won 21 out of them. In fact, during a recent interview at the Citi Open, she was informed about her incredible winning streak (winning 8 out of the last 11 matches) and was also told about her reaching her highest ranking in almost three years. Highlighting all these stats, the 2021 US Open champion was then asked about her expectations at the US Open swing. Replying to that, Emma Raducanu said, “It sounds great when you say that. It’s been a lot of hard work, a long time struggling. I’m just really pleased to kind of pick up this form, this momentum, this confidence.”
Further on, she went on to add that she is happy to spend each day practising and improving with every match. “It takes some pressure off the result, so then that’s when the results come, it’s kind of ironic. So, I’m really pleased and I guess my goal is to keep enjoying each day and winning as many as possible and creating the streak that I was kind of talking about, but yeah, obviously ranking wise…”
Emma Raducanu has now booked her place in the SF of the Citi Open for the very first time in her career with a hard-fought 6-4,7-5 triumph over the Greek star Maria Sakkari. Her impressive performances in the last few months have now made her the new British number one, but she really had to overcome a lot of hurdles in this match against Sakkari.
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