London, Jul 3 (AP) Emma Raducanu played some of her most clinical tennis since her U.S. Open title run to sweep aside 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday and reach the third round. In front of a raucous Centre Court crowd, Raducanu surprised even herself sometimes in outdueling the Czech player in a match between Grand Slam winners who were both unseeded. Also Read | WI vs AUS 2nd Test 2025: Steve Smith Returns As Australia Announce Playing XI for Second Match Against West Indies. 鈥淭hat was one of the best matches I’ve played in a long time,鈥 said Raducanu, the 2021 champion at Flushing Meadows. 鈥淚 turned one point around that I think is probably the best point I’ve ever played, so that was pretty crazy. I think the crowd were loving it.鈥 She may have to up her level even further in the next match, though. In a tournament where four of the five top women’s seeds have already been eliminated, the British home favorite will be up against the only one remaining 鈥 No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. Also Read | Swimmer, Lia Thomas To Be Stripped of Titles After University of Pennsylvania Agrees To Ban Trans Athletes From Sports Teams: Report. 鈥淵eah, I guess there’s no pressure at all on me the next round,鈥 Raducanu said in an on-court interview, laughing. There’s always pressure on Raducanu playing at Wimbledon, especially after she became the first British woman since 1977 to capture a Grand Slam title when she won the U.S. Open as a qualifier. She struggled with injuries and form after that, and her fourth-round showing at Wimbledon last year is her best result in a major since. But her win against Vondrousova, who in 2019 was the French Open runner-up, showed Raducanu might be back to her best. “She was playing amazing tennis,” Vondrousova said. 鈥淪he was crushing me in the rallies, so there wasn’t much I could do.鈥 Raducanu seemed pretty impressed with her own performance as well. 鈥淚 think today I played really, really well,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 knew today I had to be aggressive because Marketa would beat me if I was going to push the ball around.鈥 (AP) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)