"I'm very happy to battled through" - Raducanu on first WTA Tour clay win

Emma Raducanu dropped just three games in her first-ever clay-court match in a Hologic WTA Tour event in the first round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

Raducanu only played her first-ever professional tennis matches on clay over the weekend representing Great Britain in the Billie Jean King Cup, where she went 1-1 with a victory over Tereza Martincova and a loss to Marketa Vondrousova in her team's 3-2 overall defeat to the host Czechs in Prague. Now she put on a show against Storm in Stuttgart.

She said:

"I feel like there were many long deuce games and I'm very happy to have battled through against Storm. She played two matches in qualifying and we played last year. She's extremely tricky and I'm just really happy to have found a way through those long games and put on a good performance."

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Raducanu fell into few of the traps that might befall an inexperienced clay-court player against Sanders, as she still managed more winners (17) than unforced errors (14) and landed a stunning 83% of her first serves. Nonetheless, she says, every day remains a learning process.

She further added:

"The duration of the points, that's something I need to work on as I spend more time on clay. It will improve my craftiness and variety of shot, so I'm just looking forward to spending more time on this surface moving forward."