Rybakina Emma Raducanu Flooded by Rybakina in our Open Direct Loss | US Open Tennis 2025

Emma Raducanu has been working on improving the quality of the game over the past few months to inspire the best players in the world, but the meeting with an elite shows more she has to improve.

This has become a painfully familiar experience for Brits 1, and facing a tough offensive performance by 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, Raducanu was greatly reduced to a bystander in his own tennis match, who drove the fourth round of the U.S. Open 6-1, 6-2.

Given her active preparation, Radanu has good reason to hope this time around may be slightly different. She played the game as confident as she could, losing six of the first two games while doing well and using authoritative, clean tennis to determine the baseline.

However, Rybakina will always constitute a huge improvement in quality. She is the best server in the world and she pairs it with some of the cleanest and most destructive ground shoes in the game. The only time they faced each other, a less prepared Rakanu beat 6-0, 6-1.

From the beginning, Radanu felt the overwhelming force of the Rybakina earthquake as Hazakhstani opened the game and hit both wings with piercing, relaxing power and depth. Raducanu desperately tries to keep her position on the benchmark, rather than giving up any stance, but she is often forced to commit a defensive roster.

Rybakina, who had previously removed No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in Cincinnati for two weeks, had her devastating shooting and it soon became apparent that she was in a similar mood. She serves smartly, neutralizes Rakanu’s return, and she returns in a deeper way, constantly sprinting. She controlled nearly every baseline exchange, slamming the ball back, forcing the 22-year-old to fight behind the baseline without any result. Raducanu apparently has always hoped to undermine Rybakina with her changes, but the disdain of Rybakina handling her first backhand slice ended those hopes.

Faced with such continuous, ruthless pressure makes it difficult for anyone to play the game, and Rybakina’s climax level directly causes the accumulation of errors in Raducanu. She also ruthlessly closed the British several chances to return to the game. In the second set, Raducanu finally put the measure of Rybakina serving pressure on 30-30 in the break at 2-3 Ini, and Hazakhstani responded with a vicious ace before entering another service. She didn’t lose another game.

While the past five months have made significant progress for Raducanu, from rebuilding her confidence and competition with Mark Petchey to finding the courage to step out of her comfort zone and Francisco Roig, the new coach who hired herIt was a turbulent year for Rybakina, who was once considered the third best player behind Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek.

Her season began with news that her long-time coach Stefano Vukov was suspended by the WTA for alleged abuse of Rybakina, who has repeatedly expressed opposition to the ruling and continued to leave the game with him.

Cincinnati is opening shortly this month, Vukov Successfully appealed the rulingwhich means he is allowed to compete again. Since the case ended, Rybakina has apparently produced her best tennis ball of the season.

For Raducanu, her sight was overwhelmed by one of the best players in the world, which became too familiar. In this year’s Grand Slam, Fortune faced Swiatek, Sabalenka and now Rybakina twice. There is no shame in being beaten by an incredible tennis player With Sabalenka at Wimbledonthese meetings are too unilateral.

Since she announced her coaching partnership with Roig, Raducanu stressed that her main goal is to improve to a point where it can make the lives of these top players consistently difficult and ensure that she does not rely on her opponent’s level in every game. For all the positive signs they showed early, she also repeatedly noted that their cooperation is still in its early stages and still has a long way to go from achieving the goal.

At the end of a tough afternoon, this was obvious to all 14,000 spectators in one of the world’s biggest competitions.