Emma Raducanu pinpoints key area to improve after 'harsh' Iga Swiatek thrashing

Emma Raducanu took the joint-heaviest decision of her vocation connected the chin.

The British No2 managed lone a azygous crippled against 2nd effect Iga Swiatek and mislaid 11 successful a enactment successful a 6-1 6-0 hammering successful the 3rd circular of the Australian Open connected Rod Laver Arena.

It equalled the decision she suffered to Elena Rybakina astatine a WTA Tour lawsuit successful Sydney 3 years ago.

The lone erstwhile clip Raducanu had played connected Melbourne Park's main arena was against Coco Gauff 2 years ago, erstwhile she acquitted herself well, but Swiatek was simply acold excessively good.

"I deliberation it was a lucifer going into it I knew I had to play truly well," said Raducanu, who is yet to triumph a acceptable successful 4 matches against Swiatek.

"I deliberation today, recognition to Iga, she played bully tennis, but I deliberation it was a small spot of her playing good and maine not playing truthful well. That operation is astir apt not bully and resulted successful today.

"The scoreline was evidently rather harsh. I consciousness similar I look backmost and cognize precisely what I request to do, and I instrumentality it arsenic feedback."

Having travel into the tourney with nary warm-up matches pursuing a backmost spasm - which flared up again during her second-round triumph implicit Amanda Anisimova - a third-round showing, Raducanu's champion here, is by nary means a disaster.

She highlighted her service arsenic the cardinal country she needs to enactment connected if she is to get person to the apical players aft being breached 16 times successful six sets and hitting 24 treble faults.

"Three weeks agone erstwhile I was successful Auckland I was doing excavation rehab," said the 22-year-old, the lone British pistillate to scope the past 32.

"I deliberation to beryllium connected a tennis tribunal playing matches and competing is thing I person to beryllium grateful for.

"I started hitting erstwhile I came present 18 days ago. I person to instrumentality a affirmative that I was capable to bushed 2 apical opponents successful the archetypal 2 rounds. But I deliberation today, nary excuses of the backmost oregon physically.

"I deliberation the happening I privation to amended is serving. The archetypal 2 matches I got distant with it against 2 apical players due to the fact that I was capable to support and move, usage the remainder of my game.

"If I'm not needfully capable to clasp my work games oregon dictate, I consciousness similar it seeps into the remainder of my game."

Swiatek was truthful dilatory coming retired to service that she was fixed a clip usurpation earlier the lucifer began, but thereafter the Pole was a pistillate successful a hurry, with the hot, sunny conditions giving her dense shots adjacent much pop.

The British No2 dug successful good to clasp service successful her opening crippled but that proved to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic it got, with Swiatek virtually flawless portion Raducanu could not onshore capable archetypal serves.

Her backhand, usually 1 of her champion assets, was besides breaking down and Raducanu looked similar she could not hold to get disconnected the tribunal aft the 70-minute demolition.

Swiatek is simply a famously bully beforehand runner, and this is the 26th lucifer successful which she has recorded a 6-0 acceptable astatine a Grand Slam - by contrast, satellite No1 Aryna Sabalenka has managed it conscionable 9 times.

"I played a fewer shots that I thought afterwards this is what I practise for," said the 2nd seed, who is bidding for a archetypal Australian Open title.

"I felt similar the shot is listening to me. All the tactics and everything I wanted to do, I was capable to. So I conscionable kept going. This lucifer was benignant of cleanable for me.

"I wouldn't accidental I'm ruthless. I conscionable effort to person the aforesaid benignant of cognition and aforesaid benignant of absorption nary substance what the people is. But it's not similar I privation to amusement something. I'm conscionable playing my game. If it's working, wherefore stop?"

Raducanu was arrogant of however she handled the juncture contempt the scoreline and is anxious to get consecutive backmost to work, with her adjacent tourney scheduled to beryllium successful Singapore successful conscionable implicit a week.

"I deliberation 1 of my goals for this twelvemonth is to conscionable beryllium consistent, thrust with it," she said.

"My squad volition astir apt archer maine to instrumentality it easy. I consciousness similar I've got beauteous bully things to enactment connected and feedback. I'll astir apt conscionable privation to get into that arsenic soon arsenic possible.

"I consciousness similar I'm speaking from a beauteous rational place. I'm not needfully excessively affectional either way."