She is a player reborn, with her form and fitness finally settled.<\/p>\n
And now, she has been given a key piece of tactical advice on how to trouble Rybakina<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu told where to attack Elena Rybakina<\/p>\n Speaking on The Tennis Podcast, it was David Law who first sought to praise the form of Raducanu.<\/p>\n He began: \u201cYeah, this is the best we\u2019ve seen from Emma Raducanu since she won the US Open. That\u2019s my assessment. That\u2019s four years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cShe hasn\u2019t won any matches in the US Open since then until this year, obviously, she was injured for one of those, but two first-round defeats. <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s just a confidence and clarity of thought to what she\u2019s doing out there. She knows what\u2019s coming off the racket. She\u2019s confident in her body, it seems now. I don\u2019t sense niggles or concern that her body\u2019s going to break down. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd this is the one we\u2019ve been waiting for. The one that I always hoped, given enough time and given enough good health, could develop. Now I still think she\u2019s got a long way to go in her work. She talked about how she feels that too.\u201d<\/p>\n Then, touching on the Rybakina task that lies ahead, he admitted: \u201cAnd it may be too early in the journey for her to knock off Elena Rybakina, who is just still one of the premium ball-strikers in the world. And even if Raducanu reaches her peak and is at her best, she could still lose to Elena Rybakina, and that is okay because Rybakina is that good. <\/p>\n \u201cI think she does have a chance, because she\u2019s such a clever match player, and I\u2019m wondering how she gets the ball out of the strike zone of Rybakina, or gets her in a position where she can\u2019t always hurt her. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know whether she actually can. But if anybody can, she\u2019s the type of player I think is able to, because I just think, as a constructor of rallies, she really knows what she\u2019s doing. I\u2019m fascinated to see how she gets on in this one.\u201d<\/p>\n Matt Roberts then delivered his verdict, even pinpointing an area of Rybakina\u2019s game that could be exploited: \u201cAnd it was a portion of the Rybakina match today and the second set with her forehand really slightly spraying and letting her down, and that is the wing where sometimes she can break down.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically, I\u2019m completely in with David. I do think Raducanu will find ways to get the ball on the forehand and put it in slightly awkward positions.\u201d<\/p>\n What happened the last time Emma Raducanu played Elena Rybakina?<\/p>\n Having played together in the Washington doubles, and with Rybakina revealing how she feels about Raducanu away from the court<\/a>, there is a strange sense of camaraderie and mutual respect heading into the clash between the two opponents.<\/p>\n After all, they will both be well aware of the threats their adversary has at their disposal, with both having enjoyed fine runs over the last few months.<\/p>\n However, interestingly, this will actually mark just their second career meeting against one another.<\/p>\n The first came over three years ago, when Rybakina put in a brutal performance to dispatch Raducanu, 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n So much has changed since then, with the latter having discovered a level of fitness that she has not had in years. This, alongside her revitalised form under Francisco Roig\u2019s leadership, proves why this match has all the makings of a US Open<\/a> classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu faces Elena Rybakina in the third round, in what is already tipped to be one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6961,6962,101,118,56,54,55,6545],"class_list":{"0":"post-99103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-elena-rybakina","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99103","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=99103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Emma](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2231657041-1024x605.jpg\")
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