PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu was bundled out of the French Open within the second spherical on Wednesday, shedding 3-6 6-1 6-1 to impressed Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
The twelfth seeded Briton, who needed to dig deep in her opening match to return from a set right down to beat Czech qualifier Linda Noskova, was initially stunned by world quantity 47 Sasnovich’s attacking energy.
Sasnovich was hitting the ball early, shifting the Briton throughout the court docket earlier than 19-year-old Raducanu responded in form with some aggressive hitting.
After dragging her opponent vast of the court docket she earned a key break to steer 4-2 and bagged the opening set when she fired an outstanding cross court docket winner.
Undaunted, Sasnovich raised her recreation within the second set to race right into a 4-0 lead.
The Belarusian, who had by no means gone previous the second spherical in Paris, bagged the second with one more break after which fought off a number of break factors early within the deciding set earlier than breaking for 3-1 when Raducanu despatched a wild forehand 5 metres over the baseline.
Raducanu, who solely performed on clay professionally for the primary time final month and had been battling a again damage in latest weeks, may do nothing to show the tide.
A dominant Sasnovich put her out of her distress with a scorching backhand down the road on her first match level after two hours.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; modifying by Martyn Herman)
