Emma Raducanu seems like new British no. 1 in Straight-Sets Rout against Rebecca Sramkova to book Queen’s quarterfinals

Emma Raducanu showed the best of the shape that she saw the British NO1 ranking list Katie Boulter While she defeated Rebecca Sramkova 6-4, 6-1 to book her place in the queen’s quarterfinals.

The 22 -year -old earned the honor of a roundabout – in which Boulter dropped her Nottingham points early because of the new place of Queen in the schedule – but on her strongest on Thursday afternoon for why she returns to the top two years after losing the ranking.

But the former US Open Champion is determined that winning the place is not its most important driver on the field.

“It’s fun, but I wouldn’t say that this is the most important thing for me,” Raducanu said after the game. ‘I think I had Katie in front, it was nice for me to chase something.

‘Now I know for sure that she will enjoy it with me. The grass season is still young, just like the rest of the season.

‘But anyway, as I said earlier in the week, we have a healthy competition between the two of us. I want to see her do it well; She wants to see me doing it well. ‘

Emma Raducanu booked her place in the quarterfinals on Queen’s on Thursday afternoon

The 22-year-old moved well and shot her way to a lead of five games in the first set

Rebecca Sramkova was unable to use her best tennis and was quickly flooded by the star

After Her running away victory against Cristina Bucsa on Tuesday afternoonRaducanu had spoken about her conviction that she plays with personality at her best and can express herself on the field. Against Smrakova, the former US Open -winner quickly resigned and showed exactly how dangerous she can be when they fit and shoot.

It took less than 25 minutes for Raducanu to have a path blow through the first five games and played as if they were subjected to different limitations than her opponent on time. Raducanu and Sramkova are separated by only four places in the world ranking, but while the first excellent hit on both wings, it could have been forty -four.

But for the set, Raducanu seemed to look too desperate for the finish line, too happy to beat the clock and secure the set faster than she had against Bucsa. Sramkova, on the loss of Raducanu Focus, only had to defend Sramkova neatly and wait until her opponent cooks a so -called winner.

For an increasingly modest crowd, perhaps unbelieving that she watched the same player who had flushed with the Slovak minutes earlier, Sramkova won the next three games and forced Raducanu to wriggle the game back on her own Serve.

“I think I was locked up in the beginning,” Raducanu added, referring to her assessment of beating Bucsa. ‘I think I have given myself a really good lead and a good pillow. I would not say that it was my most beautiful version, to be honest, even in the second set, 0-40, only a few second facilities that I would probably not miss.

‘But I think I also won many victories by taking the ball, so I couldn’t be too much on myself. What I am most happy with is how I was again focused in the first set after 5-0 to 5-4 and came out again in the second. ‘

After the break it seemed to be a return to regular programming when Raducanu Sramkova broke in Pace, back in complete control of her play and the pace of the game.

After she had lost her focus against the end of the first set, Raducanu said she was satisfied with how she had regrouped herself

The player went through the draw with a smile on her face and a freedom of expression

Raducanu will now be confronted with number one seed Zheng Qinwen or McCartney Kessler of the US

For a player who has been pronounced about continuing to manage a recurring back issue, another remarkable aspect about the Raducanu tournament has so far been her movement, with the attempts of Sramkova to drop her opponent, often at a punitive price.

And there are other aspects of her movement that require control. In addition to looking the field, Raducanu, even in the light of her first set hik, well, free. After she had smiled in the weak in the weak, after she had been smiling in the weak, there was a similar lightness in her singles game.

The circumstances this week are more than favorable: with the return of Nick Cavaday to her coaching team next to Mark Petchey, and the roar of an admiring home crowd, this is the soft start to her grass campaign as Raducanu could hope. But the player sets the opportunity and she will look forward to her quarterfinals with pleasure.