Emma Raducanu vs. Anna Blinkova | 2026 London Round 1 | WTA Match Highlights

It's Emma Raducanu and a big reception for Emma Raducanu. Well good afternoon everyone, welcome along to day two. As well with the rain that we've had the last 48 hours. She was caught in two mines almost there. It's excellent again, it's just fabulous tennis. Excellent drop shot from Emma Raducanu. It's well done going after that drop shot. Well I'm not sure Emma Raducanu can play much better than that. An outrageously good set of tennis, yeah. Thumbs up from Andrew Richardson. She wins 25 of the 31 points played in the set and after just 20 minutes takes it six love. Yeah, just everywhere. Yeah, excellent. Had no idea which way she was going there, Blinkova. She continues to paint lines. Oh it's brilliant from Blinkova. The forehand's been fabulous, the backhand not bad either. Oh what a point. Well it just had to finish on a clean winner from Emma Raducanu. An absolutely stunning display of ball striking today. The first set she was utterly flawless. Second set was made to work a little harder but you always felt she was in control. Great to see the smile back on the face of Emma Raducanu. Into round two she goes and she will take on either Serana Castella or Madison Inglis next. Congratulations, that looked like quite a confident performance out there. How would you rate it? Yeah, I'm so happy to have come through that match and to be back playing here at Queen's. You know, I actually haven't won a match for a few months and there's no place I would rather have done it so I'm really grateful for all the support so thank you. Yes, how have you kind of navigated that journey because it's not easy, it's not easy being in the spotlight and then you wrote on the camera there back home you look very happy with your team there. I think there were some friends over there as well. You've got a lot of people supporting you so how have you navigated that situation? Yeah, I have people who mean a lot around me. I'm doing the best I can each day and I mean the atmosphere, being a part of the atmosphere is something that I really enjoy and I don't necessarily see it as added negative pressure. I really, really thrive and buzz off it so I love playing here and yeah I'm just happy to be back. And Luke, you've got another match coming up today. We are reigniting the Bolter Canoe partnership so what can we expect from that? That's on court one everyone by the way if you want to watch that later. Yeah, come support court one later on. Bolter Canoe's back in action and it's our annual doubles match so I'm really looking forward to getting out there and hopefully you guys can come and support us and I'll be supporting Katie in her next match right now so I hope you guys support her as well. Thanks very much, well done Emma. Emma Radekani folks.