SMILING Emma Raducanu banked £115,000 after bouncing out a Wimbledon Czech.
The 18-year-old debutant excelled herself with a 6-2 6-4 second-round victory over Prague’s finest Marketa Vondrousova that put her name in lights and secured a bumper payday.
Game, set and match – Emma Raducanu!
Raducanu 6-2 6-4 Vondrousova.
What a moment for the 18-year-old, she wins in straight sets and is into the third round! The biggest win of her career by a mile.
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Rookie Raducanu – whose ranking of 338 will rise significantly now – has more than QUADRUPLED her career prize money within the space of winning two matches on the green, green grass of SW19.
And she even received endorsement from the highest as two-time winner Andy Murray, the son-in-law of her coach Nigel Sears, sent his warmth congratulations via social media.
Raducanu, who was born in Toronto, Canada, is considered one of the best future prospects of the sport.
And this week she has already started to fulfil that promise as the only home-grown woman left in the singles draw.
The crowd on Court 12 were up on their feet and serenading the new hope of British women’s tennis following this spectacular win.
What is most impressive is that after winning the first set, she managed to back it up in the second.
Significantly she faced a break point to go 4-0 down but the Canadian-born star managed to recover her poise to win five of the next six games.
World No42 Vondrousova is an established player on the WTA circuit and broke the heart of British No1 Jo Konta when she reached the 2019 French Open final.
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The dream #Wimbledon debut continues…@EmmaRaducanu is into the third round after an impressive 6-2, 6-4 victory against Marketa Vondrousova – her first-ever Top 100 win
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Let’s go @EmmaRaducanu
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This is only Raducanu’s SECOND match at a Slam and the wildcard entrant will now face Romanian Sorana Cirstea in the last 32 on Saturday.
The teen could have been lost to tennis given she tried all manner of different sports growing up, including motorcross, karting, horse-riding and even tap dancing.
She took her A-Levels only two months ago but continues to pass her Wimbledon examination with flying colours.
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