EMMA RADUCANU could be back where it all started, as she cruised through to the US Open third round.
The British woman’s number one beat Janice Tjen 6-2, 6-2 in her first deep run in New York since she won the 2021 title.
She won the tie in just an hour, which is her quickest ever win at a Grand Slam.
In her first round match, she beat Ena Shibahara 6-1, 6-2 as she clinched an immediate double-break advantage in the first set to close out the win in just over an hour.
In the previous US Opens of 2022 and 2024, the Brit exited the competition in the first round.
This comes after her British number one counterpart, Jack Draper, withdrew from the men’s singles due to an arm injury.
When is Emma Raducanu playing at the US Open?
Emma will face Elena Rybakina in the third round on August 29, with a start date to be confirmed depending on the day’s matches.
These two faced each other once in their professional career in 2022 at the Sydney Classic, with Rybakina winning 6-0, 6-1 in just 55 minutes.
The Kazakhstani player is ranked 10th with 41 wins and 16 losses.
She has nine career singles titles, including her major win at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, the first from her country to win a major.
She won the WTA 1000 titles at Indian Wells and the Italian Open in 2023.
She also won titles in 2024 at Brisbane, Abu Dhabi, and Stuttgart, as well as in 2025 at Strasbourg.
She was ranked world No. 3 in women’s singles by the WTA, making her the first Kazakhstani to be ranked in the world’s top 10 and the current Kazakhstani No. 1.
When did Emma Raducanu win the US Open?
The Brit won the US Open in 2021, coming through from the qualifiers.
She won her first major title over Leylah Fernandez with a 6-4, 6-3 win.
She became the first qualifier, man or woman, to claim a major title.
Raducanu had only started her professional tennis career three months before the US Open and had not even played a tour-level three-set match, nor had she won a match at a WTA tour event.
This is just Raducanu’s second Grand Slam main draw appearance, and no woman in the Open era had ever won in so few attempts.
Along with that distinction is a seemingly endless list of records: Raducanu is the first British woman to win a grand slam title since Virginia Wade’s Wimbledon victory in 1977.
She was just 18 at the time when she won the Grand Slam; she became the youngest Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova in 2004.
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