Emma Raducanu returned to the third round of the US Open for the first time since winning the 2021 title with a 6-2, 6-1 defeat of Indonesia’s Janice Tjen.
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It was Raducanu’s second straight win over a potentially tricky qualifier. Having dropped just three games against former doubles No. 4 Ena Shibahara in the first round, she found herself taking on the surging Tjen, who had compiled a 101-13 record since graduating from Pepperdine University last May. That included a first-round upset of No. 24 seed Veronika Kudermetova in Tjen’s first career meeting with a Top 50 player.
Her second was a marked contrast. Raducanu needed just an hour to end No. 149-ranked Tjen’s run and advance to the third round of a major for the third time in 2025. There, she will face either No. 9 seed Elena Rybakina or another qualifier, 18-year-old Tereza Valentova, in a bid to reach the second week of a major for the fourth time overall.
“Super dangerous opponent,” Raducanu said in her on-court interview. “She was playing extremely well, and I thought any ball that I put mid-court that was not necessarily good enough, she just put away easy. So I was really pleased with how I performed today.”
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