EM'S MAD FOR IT

Raducanu insists she's in best form since US Open triumph

- NEIL McLEMAN

EMMA RADUCANU says she is playing her best tennis since winning the US Open after reaching the last 16 of the Madrid Masters without dropping a set.

And the British No.l, now the highest seed left in her half of the draw, claims she is finally feeling like herself again.

The No.9 seed will face world No.37 Anhelina Kalinina tonight as she seeks to win three matches in the same event since her stunning New York triumph last September (right).

Her promising start to a first professional clay-court season follows six months of injury problems and poor form as a Grand Slam champ.

And her ecstatic reaction after beating fellow teenager Marta Kostyuk in the second round in the Spanish capital showed the 19-year-old is back in the old routine.