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<\/p>\n\u201cIt feels incredible to have come out and played how I did today,\u201d Raducanu said. \u201cSorana has been in incredible form this year, had some amazing wins, reached a really high ranking and earlier on in the year she beat me. I\u2019m really glad that I could get her back at home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I played a really high level. I think I had to playing Sorana. I had to go out there, play aggressively and dictate.<\/p>\n
\u201cStraight from the get go I actually put a really good game on the court. I\u2019m really pleased that I\u2019m able to play another match here a bit later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three key stats<\/p>\n
Effective first serve \u2013 42% of Raducanu\u2019s first serves went unreturned compared to the draw average of 25%
\nEdging the short rallies \u2013 Raducanu won 61% of points in rallies of 0-4 shots
\nEarly breaks \u2013 Raducanu broke on Cirstea\u2019s opening service game in both sets to get off on the front foot<\/p>\n
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The former US Open champion got off to a lightning start against the world No.18, racing out to a 4-0 lead, but left the door open for a potential comeback late in the set.<\/p>\n
Cirstea capitalised on back-to-back errors to rescue one break and had the opportunity to level with the scores, tightly poised at 30-40 on the Raducanu serve at 5-4.<\/p>\n
Raducanu got the better of a long baseline exchange before producing two unreturnable serves to clinch the opening set.<\/p>\n
The British star wasted no time early in the second, clipping the back of the baseline with a punishing forehand to break in the opening game before stretching out to a 4-1 lead once again.<\/p>\n
Raducanu dropped just six points behind her serve in a clinical second set. On her second match point, the Brit fired another unreturnable first serve to book her place in another Queen\u2019s Club quarter-final.<\/p>\n
It was heartbreak for Dart, who was looking to reach the quarter-final of a grass court WTA 500 for the second time in her career.<\/p>\n
Dart pulled off a gutsy break at 5-4 in the deciding set to get back on level terms, but wasn\u2019t able to back it up.<\/p>\n
Rakhimova ripped a forehand winner down the line to break for a sixth time in the match and, at the second time of asking, wrapped up the win after two hours and 50 minutes.<\/p>\n
The quarter-final will be a first meeting between Raducanu and Rakhimova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt feels incredible to have come out and played how I did today,\u201d Raducanu said. \u201cSorana has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}