Emma Raducanu\u2019s breathtaking Wimbledon debut continued as the teenager shocked Sorana Cirstea to become the youngest British woman to reach the last 16 in the Open Era.<\/p>\n
The British game has known Raducanu as a known talent for many years. She had already swept past qualifier Vitalia Diatchenko and former French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova and reached the third round without dropping a set.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old stayed put in school to complete her A levels in maths and economics, only finishing a couple of months ago. By playing on the biggest stage of her career so far on Court One, she has impressively handled the occasion.<\/p>\n
She took on the world No 45, who knocked out Victoria Azarenka in the previous round. Raducanu produced a sparkling attacking display, fighting spirit and tenacity, claiming the win on her third match point.<\/p>\n
Raducanu said in her on-court interview: \u201cHonestly, I am so speechless right now, at the end I didn\u2019t know what my reaction would be if I won and that just happened, I am so so grateful for all the support I had today.\u00a0Who would have thought, it is funny because at the start when I was packing to come into the bubble, my parents were like, \u2018Aren\u2019t you packing too many sets of match kit?\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think I am going to have to do some laundry tonight, but I think they have a laundry service at the hotel, so I am all good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 18-year-old stunned Romanian Sorana Cirstea with a blistering display of power and precision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":37814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2097,688,2099,2098,2100,250],"class_list":["post-17067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-french-open","tag-marketa-vondrousova","tag-sorana-cirstea","tag-vitalia-diatchenko","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}