"I executed my plan very well" says Raducanu after battling past Sloane Stephens

Raducanu was very relieved after the win and quite emotional about it too. Her start was brilliant as she showed some of the things that won her the US Open a couple of months ago. Speaking on the first set where she served a bagel to Stephens, she said:

"I went out there and I played a great first set," she said afterwards. "I executed my game plan pretty well and was making very little unforced errors, but of course, because Sloane is a great champion, she was fighting back in the second set."

The 2nd set indeed went the way of Stephens who won it with 6-2. Raducanu explained it like this:

"Her defensive skills were pretty inspiring, actually, for me to try and replicate myself later on. So we got into some long rallies. She turned it around. Then in the third set, I'm just glad I could regroup and make less errors again and play some good tennis."

She finished it off with:

"Some of those shots she was getting to I couldn't believe, like her squash shot, her forehand on the run, I couldn't believe the ball kept coming back. I definitely think that I want to learn from that, and it's tough, because it's a bit deceiving. You don't think she's at the ball, but then she comes back and the ball is coming back with an even better angle on it."