- 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 retirement loss there underlined the need to work on her physicality in order to mix with the top players on the tour.
Few players on the women’s tour stand as a greater measure of physical preparedness than the tireless Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain, but on Saturday afternoon Raducanu was as ready as anyone could be: she simply did not let her play. In a faultless exhibition of clean, relentless shotmaking and court sense beyond her years, Raducanu utterly obliterated Sorribes Tormo 6-0, 6-1 to reach the fourth round of the US Open on her debut.
