Hiya and welcome to stay protection of an enormous match for Emma Raducanu.
The Briton is in quarter-final motion on the Stuttgart Open the place she’s going to play world primary Iga Swiatek. Raducanu comes into the match taking part in a few of the greatest tennis since successful the US Open in 2021.
She received each her ties within the Billie Jean King Cup final weekend and are available by way of two matches this week in Germany, beating Angelique Kerber and Linda Noskova.
However she faces a frightening job right now within the form of Swiatek, who’s a three-time winner of the French Open. The 2 gamers met two years in the past on the identical stage in Stuttgart and Raducanu says she’s going to come into it with no worry.
She stated: “We performed right here two years in the past within the quarters, I’ve come a good distance in two years, and he or she has achieved rather a lot, I’ve nothing to lose, I can swing and revel in it.
“Hopefully recuperate in time. I’m good.”
Raducanu has struggled for kind and confidence up till the previous week after an injury-hit 2023 however she insists she by no means doubted the nice instances would return.
“I’m not too stunned as a result of I’ve been working actually exhausting on the coaching court docket and I knew it was only a matter of time,” she stated.
“This isn’t my greatest I nonetheless have a protracted approach to go. I’m simply actually joyful the rewards are beginning to come on the match court docket.
“You know the way it’s when you find yourself coaching day in, time out you are feeling just like the outcomes aren’t going your means. It’s by no means that distant, that’s one thing I’m studying.
“Going by way of every part I’ve been by way of offers you a distinct appreciation, there may be nothing like taking part in in entrance of followers and taking part in good tennis.”