Emma Raducanu was able to laugh about her opponent’s lengthy medical time-out after coming back from a set down to overwhelm Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova.
“I kind of knew it was to try and throw me off, but I kept my cool,” Raducanu chuckled, as she spoke to Sky Sports after her bizarre but increasingly impressive 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 victory.
“Luckily I had a good cushion,” she added, referring to the 5-0 lead that she held in the second set at the time of the interruption. “I served it out, and then from the third set, I was really on it.