The world number 1 Belarusian dismissed the British this Friday, in the third round of Wimbledon.
The world N.1 Aryna Sabalenka overcome the resistance of the British Emma Raducanu (40th) on Friday to rise to the knockout stages of Wimbledon, where it will face its former partner of Double Elise Mertens (23rd). La Bélarusse, already out of winner of its only preceding duel against the US Open 2021 winner, on the hard courts of Indian Wells, won 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 on the central in the last match of the day.
The triple winner in Grand Chelem, in search of her first title on the lawn of the All England Club, had to fight firm from the first round, where Raducanu served for the set at 6-5 and obtained a set at 6/5 in the tie-break. Sabalenka dismissed it and won the Channel after an hour and quarter combat.
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Sabalenka, bane of Mertens
Not discouraged by the loss of the first set, Raducanu quickly breaks in the second act to break away from 4-1, before Sabalenka took his commitment to him to pick up at 4-4. A station wagon in the next game turned out to be fatal for Raducanu, which failed to reach the knockout stages in Wimbledon for the third time.
Sabalenka, who leads 10-2 in her duels with Elise Mertens, reached the semi-finals twice at the All England Club, in 2021 and 2023. The Belgian raised himself on Friday for the third time of her career in the round of 16 in Wimbledon after having succeeded in 2019 and 2022. The 23rd world has created a little surprise by eliminating the third round Svitolina (13th), double semi-finalist in Wimbledon in 2019 and 2023.
