- British teenager wins 6-0, 6-1 to reach last 16
- Raducanu could face world No 1 Ashleigh Barty next
Over the past 12 days in New York, whenever Emma Raducanu has reflected on her startling run to the fourth round at Wimbledon earlier in the summer, she has spoken about how her eventual retirement there underlined the need to work on her physicality in order to compete with the top players on the WTA.
Few players on the women’s tour stand as a greater measure of physical preparedness than the tireless Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain, but Raducanu had an answer: she simply did not let her play. In a faultless exhibition of clean, relentless ball-striking and court sense beyond her years, Raducanu produced the statement performance of her career as she utterly obliterated her opponent 6-0, 6-1 to reach the fourth round of the US Open on her debut.