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EMMA THE GLADIATOR
Daily Star
|May 12, 2025
Resilient Raducanu is Rome and dry
EMMA RADUCANU showed her ruthless streak in Rome, rebounding from a first-set loss to a demolition win.
And as she warmed up for the French Open, the Brit also refused to fall for mind games from Russian Veronika Kudermetova as she booked a last-16 Italian Open showdown with American Coco Gauff.
The world No.49 regrouped when she failed to close out the first set, winning 12 of the next 13 games for a 5-7 6-0 6-1 victory.
Former top-10 player Kudermetova took an off-court medical time-out with Raducanu leading 5-0 in the second and the Brit questioned her opponent's motives.
Raducanu said: “It was difficult but luckily I was 5-0 up when she took the time-out.
“I kind of knew it was to try to throw me off!
“I kept my cool and luckily I had a good cushion and served it out.
“In the third set, I was really on it.
This story is from the May 12, 2025 edition of Daily Star.
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