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Emma Raducanu has taken the first set from Zhang Shuai in 31 minutes. After holding for 5-1, the British teenager pushed Zhang on her serve only for the Chinese to hold from love-30 down. From there Raducanu held at love, closing out the set with her 11th and 12th winners of the afternoon (against only three unforced errors in all).
Meanwhile on Armstrong, Belinda Bencic is out in front of Italy’s Martina Trevisan early in the first set. The No 11 seed and recently minted Olympic gold medalist squandered three break-point chances after racing ahead to love-40 on Trevisan’s serve to open the match, but answered with back-to-back winners from the baseline to secure the early break. They’ve traded holds since then and Bencic is now serving at 3-2.