Raducanu bounces back to punch ticket for Stuttgart quarter-finals

US Open champion Emma Raducanu had to come back in her second-round game on Thursday to set up a quarter-final match against world number one Iga Swiatek at the WTA Stuttgart tournament.

Raducanu, who is ranked 118th globally, whitewashed German unlucky loser Tamara Korpatsch in the first set, but was broken twice in the second before gathering her composure to win 6-0, 2-6, 6-2.

After converting her second match point, the 12th-ranked British youngster pounded the air.

She will face 2020 French Open winner Swiatek, who is on a 20-match winning streak on the WTA tour, in the quarter-finals on Friday.

“She’s in good form, it’ll be an interesting match,” Raducanu said of Swiatek.

“She’s the world number one, so I don’t feel any pressure and am looking forward to it.”

On the other side of the draw, Paula Badosa of Spain will lock horns wuth Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, who has advanced to her eighth clay quarter-final on the tour.

Liudmila Samsonova defeated former Stuttgart champion Karolina Pliskova earlier in the day.

Samsonova rallied from a 4-3 disadvantage in the first set to win five straight games and go on to win 6-4, 6-4.

She will face Laura Siegemund of Germany in the quarter-finals, who is participating in Stuttgart as a wild card after knee surgery.

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