(Reuters) – U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu swept into the third spherical of the Madrid Open on Sunday with a 6-2 6-1 demolition of Marta Kostyuk whereas Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo shocked four-times main champion Naomi Osaka 6-3 6-1.
The 19-year-old Raducanu clinched 11 of the ultimate 12 video games towards Ukrainian fellow teenager Kostyuk to win consecutive matches for less than the second time in a match this season.
“I’m positively very proud of my efficiency right this moment. Marta is a superb opponent, we performed a number of instances in the juniors after which as soon as final 12 months,” stated Raducanu.
“I knew it was at all times going to be a very robust battle so I went on the market making an attempt to be actually aggressive and it positively paid off.”
The Briton broke Kostyuk in the opening recreation and managed the match from the baseline whereas being not often troubled on serve, a characteristic of her recreation that has usually been a trigger for concern since her triumph at Flushing Meadows final 12 months.
Raducanu will face one other Ukrainian, Anhelina Kalinina, in the subsequent spherical of the clay-court occasion after the 25-year-old brushed apart world quantity 9 Garbine Muguruza 6-3 6-0.
Osaka struggled for rhythm and was dominated by Sorribes Tormo, who blended her recreation as much as devastating impact to notch up a second profession victory over the Japanese former world primary.
There was one other upset earlier in the day when unseeded Bianca Andreescu, who returned to motion in Stuttgart solely final month following a long-term harm, crushed Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins 6-1 6-1 in simply over an hour.
“I didn’t count on for it to go like that in any respect however I caught to my recreation plan and it labored so I’m very glad,” stated Andreescu, who received the 2019 U.S. Open however is now ranked 111th in the world.
Andreescu will take on Jessica Pegula subsequent after the American defeated Kaia Kanepi 6-3 6-3 whereas Russia’s Daria Kasatkina got here from behind to knock out fourth seed Maria Sakkari 3-6 6-3 6-1 and arrange a conflict with Sorribes Tormo.
(Reporting by Dhruv Munjal in Bengaluru; enhancing by Clare Fallon)
