Emma Raducanu beats Sorana Cirstea to reach fourth round
Romania’s thirty-one-year old world number 45 Sorana Cirstea lost to British wild card ranked 338th,, 18-year-old Emma Raducanu 6-3, 7-5.
Emma who was coached by Nigel Sears, Andy Murray’s father-in-law, took eight games in a row, and becomes the youngest British woman to reach the Wimbledon last 16 in the open era, and will face Australia’s jila Tomijanovic next.
Cirstea who played her Wimbledon when her oppent was just five- broke Raducanu in the fourth game, by Raducanu broke back immediately and went on to win eight successive games, sealing the first set in the process. Cirstea who defeated two-time Grnad Slam champion winner Victoria Azarenka in the previoys round broke back in the fifth game. She held fice break points in anear 15-minute game at 3-4 ahead, but it was a moment in the 12th game that sea;d the match for her. A backhand winner, that caused her to drop her own racquet in disbelief was the moment Cirstea’s head dropped and RAducanu who hit 30 winners in all went on to earn her place in the fourth round on her third match point.
Her prize money is increased to £181, 000