Emma Raducanu claimed a 6-4 6-2 victory over Maria Sakkari within the Dubai Championships on Sunday to finish her latest dropping run.
Former US Open champion Raducanu had a wild card entry and can face 14th-seeded Karolina Muchova within the second spherical.
Raducanu got here into the match on the worst run of ends in her profession, having misplaced 4 successive matches, however she made the best begin with a break of serve within the opening sport and rounded off a 6-4 6-2 victory in high quality trend along with her third ace of the 90-minute contest.
“I simply tried to remain actually targeted on the purpose in entrance of me,” Raducanu mentioned.
“I believe there have been some momentum shifts all through the match, and I believe once I bought damaged twice early within the units, I simply regrouped rather well and I managed to interrupt again each instances.
“I used to be actually happy with how I fought and competed towards Maria, she’s a prime participant.
“She’s been as excessive as No 3 on the earth so I am simply actually pleased with my efficiency.”
Raducanu has now gained all three of her matches towards Sakkari with out dropping a set, together with within the US Open semi-finals in 2021 and final 12 months at Wimbledon.
“We play fairly related. She’s actually athletic. I believe I am not essentially going to offer all my ways away, nevertheless it’s only a very tough match each time we play so I am glad to have gained on these events in all massive tournaments,” Raducanu added.
“It is my first time spending just a little little bit of time right here and I’ve actually loved it. I believe what I really like most is that every part is open late and I am an enormous night time owl.”
Raducanu had didn’t capitalise on wild card entries into tournaments in Abu Dhabi and Doha during the last two weeks, dropping within the first spherical each instances to Marketa Vondrousova and Ekaterina Alexandrova.
These losses adopted one other first-round defeat to Cristina Bucsa in Singapore and a hammering by Iga Swiatek after she had reached the third spherical of the Australian Open for the primary time.
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